[FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN, printer]. JOHNSON, SAMUEL. Elementa Philosophica: Containing chiefly, Noetica, Or Things relating to the Mind or Understanding: and Ethica, Or Things relating to the Moral Behavior. Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, 1752. Two parts in one volume, 8vo, contemporary speckled calf, by Loudon, of Carlisle, Pa., with his printed binder's label on front pastedown, joints and corners a little rubbed; first two gatherings waterstained; quarter morocco slipcase. Evans 6859.

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[FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN, printer]. JOHNSON, SAMUEL. Elementa Philosophica: Containing chiefly, Noetica, Or Things relating to the Mind or Understanding: and Ethica, Or Things relating to the Moral Behavior. Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, 1752. Two parts in one volume, 8vo, contemporary speckled calf, by Loudon, of Carlisle, Pa., with his printed binder's label on front pastedown, joints and corners a little rubbed; first two gatherings waterstained; quarter morocco slipcase. Evans 6859.

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Harrison D. Horblit

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The binder's label of Archibald Loudon reads: "Books bound in the neatest Manner, at the cheapest Rates, and with the Greatest Expedition, by Archibald Loudon in Carlisle." Loudon is not mentioned in French Early American Bookbinding by Hand, Lehmann-Haupt Bookbinding in America, or the Grolier Club Catalogue of...Bookbindings in America prior to 1850.

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