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FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Two Tracts: Information to those who would Remove to America, and, Remarks concerning the Savages of North America. London: John Stockdale, 1784.
8vo (8¼ x 4 7/8in.). Top edge shaved by binder, catching an ownership signature, contemporary calf (rebacked, extremities rubbed), spine in six compartments, gilt lettered spine label.
THIRD EDITION of Franklin's advice to new world immigrants on what to expect in America. "The Husbandman is in honor there, and even the mechanic," he declares, but he actively discourages the aristocrat who seeks to come with "no other quality to recommend him but his birth." Such "a commodity...cannot be carried to a worse market than to that of America, where people do not enquire concerning a stranger, What is he? but What can he do?" His Remarks Concerning the Indian Savages of North America reprints an essay that he originally printed at his private press in Passy "for his own amusement" and it bears Franklin's trademark wit: "Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs." Ford 369; Howes F333; Sabin 25594.
8vo (8¼ x 4 7/8in.). Top edge shaved by binder, catching an ownership signature, contemporary calf (rebacked, extremities rubbed), spine in six compartments, gilt lettered spine label.
THIRD EDITION of Franklin's advice to new world immigrants on what to expect in America. "The Husbandman is in honor there, and even the mechanic," he declares, but he actively discourages the aristocrat who seeks to come with "no other quality to recommend him but his birth." Such "a commodity...cannot be carried to a worse market than to that of America, where people do not enquire concerning a stranger, What is he? but What can he do?" His Remarks Concerning the Indian Savages of North America reprints an essay that he originally printed at his private press in Passy "for his own amusement" and it bears Franklin's trademark wit: "Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs." Ford 369; Howes F333; Sabin 25594.