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Further observations on the state of population in Manchester, and other adjacent places.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1753 Jon (bw) Af.359.12 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804 974
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 7,[1]p. ; 4°.
- Place of Publication:
- [Manchester? : printed for the author, 1774]
- Notes:
- Anonymous. By Thomas Percival.
- Dated at the end: Manchester, Feb. 1st, 1774.
- Drop-head title.
- With note at the end: "This paper is intended also for the Royal Society, but a few copies have been printed for the author's friends in Manchester.".
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with Jones, Pancronometer, q.v.; not in table of contents; item 12 in volume; shaved at side. Percival to Franklin, 21 June 1774: "I have inclosed a little Paper, which completes the account of the number of People in this Town, Township, and Parish of Manchester" (P 21: 232). Modern half sheep over contemporary floral boards; bound with other items; MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (29); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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