Considerations against laying any new duty upon sugar; ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, former owner.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia, former owner.

Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823, annotator.

Duane, William, 1760-1835, former owner.

Dufief, N. G. 1776?-1834, bookseller.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

[4],iv,30p. ; 8°.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Roberts, 1744.

Notes:

Sometimes attributed to C. A. Heath.

With a half-title, which does not carry a price.

A variant has on half-title: 'Price six-pence'.

Local Notes:

Library copy: -ht.; state unknown

HSP in LCP.

Historical Society copy Af.309.6: Benjamin Franklin's copy.

Historical Society copy Af.309.6: Bound with Maseres, Proposal, q.v.; item 6 in volume. Inscription by Benjamin Franklin on title: Wm Franklin's; Modern half sheep over contemporary floral boards; bound with other items. Pencil marginalia in Franklin's hand on pp. 46, 48, 51, and 59, badly shaved; Franklin to Maseres, 17 June 1772, thanking him for the "Pamphlets proposing to establish Life Annuities in Parishes, &c. . . . I send it back with a few Marginal Notes (perhaps of no great Importance) made in Reading it, requesting it may be return'd to me"; (P 19: 179); MS table of contents of the vol. on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; three leaves of following item misbound between H4 and I1; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (68); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.