Poor Richard Illustrated. Lessons for the Young and Old on Industry, Temperance, Frugality &c

by Franklin. Benjamin, engraver O. Pelton

$1,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

E. Herbert Clapp, 7 School St., Boston, 1879 . Engraving, 18” x 23”; sheet size 24” x 30”. CONDITION: Very good, light marginal soiling, paper pulp repairs to verso along tear at top of plate mark, as well as to vertical tear at center of lower margin. Imprint mostly effaced below print. An engraving illustrating the maxims of Benjamin Franklin’s “Poor Richard,” published in

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