The Art of Making Money Plenty in every Man's Pocket

by Doctor Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

$650 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Broadside, stipple engraved bust portrait after Cochin above a thirteen-line rebus. 11-1/2 x 8 inches. Browning, creasing, linen-backed at an early date, minor areas of loss. Fridenberg, R. Catalogue of the engraved portraits of Franklin, Cochin, 74a. Item #371998 This rebus was originally published and engraved by Peter Maverick 1780-1831 in 1817. Not long after Maverick published his print, Lay acquired the plate and replaced his name as

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