Lot 30
[Franklin, Benjamin] Saunders, Richard. Poor Richard improved...For the Year...1756...
Sale 6308 - Printed and Manuscript Americana
Jan 29, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
Estimate
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15,000
Lot Description
[Franklin, Benjamin] Saunders, Richard. Poor Richard improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris...For the Year of our Lord 1756...
"Love your enemies for they will tell you your faults"
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, (1755). First edition. 16mo. (36) pp. Illustrated with anatomical vignette woodcut and vignette calendrical woodcuts. Original stab-sewn self-wrappers; light wear and creasing to front and rear leaves; very faint dampstaining to first leaf; light spotting to final leaf, same starting; old faint pencil notation in top edge of final page; in blue cloth chemise. Church 1008; Drake 9776; Evans 7420; Ford 102; Hildeburn 1436; Miller 608; ESTC W22790 (six locations)
A fine, rare, and unsophisticated copy of one of Franklin's famed Poor Richard almanacs, a defining work of his printing career, and one of the last issues printed and edited by him. Miller locates only 20 copies (some of which are incomplete or defective), from a likely print run of around 10,000.
According to RBH, this is the fifth copy to appear at auction since 2005 (one of which was partially defective).
Provenance
Charles Sessler, Philadelphia
Collection of Joseph Newton Pew, Jr. (1886-1963), Ardmore, Pennsylvania, American Industrialist and co-founder of the Pew Charitable Trusts, thence by descent in the family
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