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FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790). The Art of Making Money Plenty in Every Mans Pocket. Edinburgh: Edward Mitchell, [ca. 1820].
8o folded proof broadsheet, uncut and unopened (together 284 x 440 mm). Engraved title and seven illustrated engravings (light soiling, small hole within figure, a few short parts along folds). Laid-in cloth portfolio.
An interesting survival, being an uncut and unopened folded proof broadsheet of Mitchell's Edinburgh edition of Franklin's famous rebus. Gottlieb writes that the work expresses "Benjamin Franklin's well-known philosophy of thrift and honest toil" (Gottlieb, Early Children's Books and Their Illustration, 191). Dayton, Harvey and Darton had published an edition in London in 1817.
8o folded proof broadsheet, uncut and unopened (together 284 x 440 mm). Engraved title and seven illustrated engravings (light soiling, small hole within figure, a few short parts along folds). Laid-in cloth portfolio.
An interesting survival, being an uncut and unopened folded proof broadsheet of Mitchell's Edinburgh edition of Franklin's famous rebus. Gottlieb writes that the work expresses "Benjamin Franklin's well-known philosophy of thrift and honest toil" (Gottlieb, Early Children's Books and Their Illustration, 191). Dayton, Harvey and Darton had published an edition in London in 1817.