Benjamin Franklin | Poor Richard ... for the year of Christ 1747—an early and scarce issue

Benjamin Franklin

Poor Richard...An Almanack For the Year of Christ 1747, It being the Third after Leap-Year... Philadelphia: B. Franklin, [1746]

12mo (175 x 100 mm). Uncut. Title and text within woodcut border; some browning and dampstaining, a few spots and stains. Stitched self-wrappers; spotted and stained, edges ragged with some loss. Housed in custom slipcase and folding chemise.

First edition. This is the fifth number of of Franklin's series. Scarce at auction—we locate only four other copies (three of which incomplete) offered in the last century.

REFERENCES:

Miller 387; Evans 5771; Hildeburn 993; Drake 9682