Printed letter from B. Franklin to a young friend, June 25th, 1745.

by Benjamin Franklin

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First edition

NP: np, nd ca. 1920 . First edition thus, 1/150 copies printed on Japan paper. Tall 8vo. 3 pp. colophon plus two pages for a brief introduction and the letter . Prints Franklin's eight points in justification for a young man taking an older woman as mistress. This is one of numerous 19th and 20th century printed editions of this letter. OCLC locates one copy American Philosophical Society . Very good. #5894 . Item #58520

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