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On the choice of a mistress & other satires & hoaxes of Dr. Benjamin Franklin / illustrated by Herb Roth for the Peter Pauper Press.
LIBRA PS745 .A2 1956
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LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Peter Pauper Press 140
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. 1947
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Satire, American.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Janson.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 93 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- On the choice of a mistress and other satires and hoaxes of Dr. Benjamin Franklin
- Fingerprint:
- 8982 lyn- e,e, orCo (3) 1947 (Q)
- Place of Publication:
- Mount Vernon, N.Y. : Peter Pauper Press, [1947]
- Contents:
- A witch trial at Mount Holly.
- The speech of Miss Polly Baker.
- Letter from Alice Addertongue.
- Mrs. Silence Dogood on funeral elegies.
- Silence Dogood on the relief of virgins.
- Advice on the choice of a mistress.
- The repeal of the Stamp act.
- An edict by the King of Prussia.
- Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one.
- Exporting of felons to the colonies.
- The sale of the Hessians.
- Supplement to the Boston independent chronicle.
- Poor Richard on the death of Titan Leeds.
- An economical project.
- A letter to the Royal Academy of Brussels.
- Notes:
- "The text of this book follows Smythe where possible; two of the satires are from other sources. Set in Janson Types, and printed on specially-made Peter Pauper Press paper."--Colophon.
- Letterpress printed.
- Title and text illustrations in red.
- In slipcase.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2013.
- Cited in:
- Bennett, Paul A., ed., Recalling Peter (NY: Typophiles, 1964) p. 62
- Donnelly & Dobkin, 371 (page 104)
- OCLC:
- 12030389
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