Facsimile of Poor Richard's almanack for 1733

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Corporate Author: Duodecimos (New York, N.Y.)
Contributors: Bigelow, John, 1817-1911., Spoor, John A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [New York] : The Duodecimos, MDCCCXCIV. [1894]
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100 1 |a Franklin, Benjamin,  |d 1706-1790. 
245 1 0 |a Facsimile of Poor Richard's almanack for 1733  |c with an introduction by John Bigelow : and notes on the portraits 
260 |a [New York] :  |b The Duodecimos,  |c MDCCCXCIV. [1894] 
300 |a 106, [27], p., [13] leaves of plates :  |b ill., facsims., ports. ;  |c 20 cm. 
500 |a Etched frontispiece port. signed in pencil "T. Johnson" (Thomas Johnson). 
500 |a "This facsimile of Poor Richard's almanack for 1733 was done for The Duodecimos, February to November, 1894. Twelve copies on vellum, and one hundred and thirty-two copies on hand-made paper, were printed, and numbered respectively from 1 to 12 and from 13 to 144."--P. [1]. 
500 |a "... the Duodecimos undertook to procure for the facsimile a quantity of genuine eighteenth-century hand-made paper such as Franklin used ... and the ... printing ... was done on an oak hand-press built in Philadelphia probably before 1800."--P. 7. 
500 |a Facsimile t.p.: Poor Richard, 1733. An almanack for the year of Christ 1733, being the first after leap year: ... / by Richard Saunders, philom. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by B Franklin ... . The Third impression. 
600 1 0 |a Franklin, Benjamin,  |d 1706-1790  |v Portraits. 
650 0 |a Almanacs, American. 
650 0 |a Bookplates  |v Specimens. 
655 7 |a Almanacs  |z Pennsylvania  |z Philadelphia  |y 18th century.  |2 rbgenr 
655 7 |a Type facsimiles (Printing)  |z New York (N.Y.)  |y 19th century.  |2 rbpri 
655 7 |a Handmade paper printings (Printing)  |z New York (N.Y.)  |y 19th century.  |2 rbpri 
700 1 |a Bigelow, John,  |d 1817-1911. 
700 1 |a Spoor, John A. 
710 2 |a Duodecimos (New York, N.Y.) 
740 0 |a Poor Richard, 1733 
852 |a Historical Society of Pennsylvania  |b Library Company  |h LCP Af.6014  |t 1 
995 |a (CPomAG)61198730