The Silence Dogood letters, II.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, author.

Contributor:

DePol, John, 1913-2004, engraver.

Morris, Charles V., writer of introduction.

Carnes, A. Burton, book designer.

Comet Press, printer.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Franklin, Benjamin.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Strathmore Fairfield (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

46, [4] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Manufacture:

New York : The Comet Press

Place of Publication:

New York : [publisher not identified], 1969.

Notes:

"These are the final seven combative essays which Benjamin Franklin contributed to the columns of the New-England Courant on controversial topics of the time, behind the pseudonym of Silence Dogood."

"Privately printed."

"This keepsake is published in connection with the celebration of Printing Week in New York, 1969, commemorating the 263rd birthday of Benjamin Franklin, printer"--Page iv.

"A. Burton Carnes ... designer, John DePol ... wood engravings"--Colophon.

The Comet Press, printer. Paper, Strathmore Fairfield Text.--Colophon.

Introduction by Charles V. Morris.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

OCLC:

16042978