584 page hardcover descriptive bibliography with illustrations. Dust jacket is complete, and bright and clean- but has some light wear and small chip on bottom rear edge. Full light brown cloth exterior with title on front cover and spine in dark brown. Interior is unmarked, tight and clean - although the top page edges are lightly foxed.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Printing, 1728-1766: A Descriptive Bibliography

Publisher

American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia

Publication Date

1974

Language

English

ISBN 10

0871691027

ISBN 13

9780871691026

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Good

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Franklin's printing house was one of the most influential in all the Brit. colonies in the 18th cent. Here are bibliographically accurate descriptions of the more than 800 items from broadsides to books printed by Franklin or by the partnership of Franklin and Hall. Lists 600+ pieces of job printing by Franklin, and another 100 items erroneously ascribed to the Franklin shop. Includes a summary account of Franklin's career as a printer in Phila., and individual essays on his dealings with the Brit. type-founders, the colonial Amer. papermakers, and the PA and New England bookbinders. Includes specimens of Franklin's first type fonts and pictorial reproductions of his stock of decorative ornaments and of rubbings of binders' tools found on vol. bearing his imprint.

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