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Franklin's Way to wealth, or, Poor Richard improved.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection HF5386 .F6 1805
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, author.
Contributor:
Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress)
Darton, William, 1781-1854, printer, bookseller.
Standardized Title:
Works. Selections. 1805
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Success.
Genre:
Maxims.
Penn Provenance:
Marescal, S. (former owner)
Physical Description:
53 pages : illustrations ; 14 cm
Other Title:
Way to wealth
Poor Richard improved
Fingerprint:
y+in f.nd n-or yosh (3) 1805 (A)
Place of Publication:
London : Printed and sold by W. Darton, jun., No. 40, Holborn Hill, 1805.
Contents:
The way to wealth
Advice to a young tradesman from an old one
A new way of paying old debts.
Notes:
Signatures: A-C⁶.
Engraved t.p. and 6 engravings throughout text.
Signed on p. 36: Richard Saunders; signed on p. 53: John L*****.
Contents listed on front cover.
Local Notes:
HF 5386 F6 1805: In early hand manuscript on title page: Ex libris S. Marescal. Binding: full tanned animal skin and blind tooled border. Purchased for the Penn Libraries from Stuart Bennett, 2024.
OCLC:
32058185

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