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Plain truth: or, Serious considerations on the present state of the city of Philadelphia, and province of Pennsylvania : By a tradesman of Philadelphia. [Sixteen lines in Latin from Sallust].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Standardized Title:
- Plain truth
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pennsylvania--Politics and government--To 1775.
- Pennsylvania.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (22,[2]p. )
- Other Title:
- Plain truth
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia : Printed [by Benjamin Franklin], in the year MDCCXLVII. [1747]
- Notes:
- Attributed to Benjamin Franklin by Miller, who identifies him as the printer.
- This printing is primarily a reimpression of the standing type of the first edition (Evans 5948). Leaf C4, blank in the first impression, here contains an English translation of the Latin excerpt from Sallust quoted on the title page, and the last line of text on p. 3 has bee corrected; cf. Miller.
- Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Dec. 3, 1747, seventeen days after the appearance of the first impression; cf. Miller.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 5949
- Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1010a
- Miller, C.W. Franklin, 417
- English Short Title Catalog, W17010.
- OCLC:
- 642771392
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