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Subjects
American Maxims, Biography, Early works to 1800, Foreign relations, Great Britain, Maxims, Quotations, maxims, Saving and investment, Statesmen, Success, Wealth, Aphorisms and apothegms, Juvenile literature, Conduct of life, Politics and government, Booksellers' catalogs, Causes, History
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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United States
Times
1775-1783

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Cover of: Franklin's Way to wealth, or, Poor Richard improved
Franklin's Way to wealth, or, Poor Richard improved: to which is added How to make much of a little, by Bob Short.
1830, William Darton and Son, 58, Holborn Hill
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Franklin's way to wealth, or, Poor Richard improved, &c.
1814, Printed by W. Darton, Jun., 58, Holborn Hill
- A new ed. / corr. and enl. by Bob Short ; and adorned with copper-plates.
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Franklin's way to wealth: or, " Poor Richard improved."
1810, Printed by and for W. and T. Darton
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The way to wealth
1800, Printed by C. Sutton, Bridlesmith-Gate
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The way to wealth: or, Poor Richard improved
1795, A.A. Renouard [Dijon, Printed by P. Causse]
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La science du bonhomme Richard: moyen facile de payer les impôts
1778, Chez Ruault libraire, rue de la Harpe
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La science du bonhomme Richard: moyen facile de payer les impôts. Traduit de l'anglois.
1778, Chez Jean-Francois Bastien, Libraire ...
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La science du bonhomme Richard, ou, Moyen facile de payer les impôts
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Table of Contents

Father Abraham's speech
The welcome guinea: a poem
Consolation for the homely
A grand compliment to the ladies
The two sinners, the Pope, and the devil: a poetical tale
An infallible cure for love
An old song: tune, A cobbler there was
Poor Richard's description of his country wife Joan, in a song to the tune of The hounds are all out.

Edition Notes

Photocopy. Boston : Massachusetts Historical Society, 1940. [24] p. ; 22 cm. (Photostat Americana ; 2nd ser., no. 104).
"Photostat Americana. Second series, 1936 ... photostated at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston"--P. [3], insert.
"No. 104 ... from the original in the Massachusetts Historical Society, April 1940. This is no. 9 in Wilberforce Eames's bibliography of Benjamin Mecom, Proceedings. American Antiquarian Society, XXXVIII, 326-327"--P. [1] insert.
This edition listed as Evans 8131 and as no. 107 in Ford, P.L. Franklin bibliography.
"Father Abraham's speech" signed: Richard Saunders.
First published in Poor Richard's almanac for 1758, and frequently reprinted under title: The way to wealth.
LC copy insert ([4] p.) mounted on front fly-leaf.

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Boston, New-England
Series
Photostat Americana ;, 2nd ser., no. 104.
Genre
Early works to 1800.

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Library of Congress
HF5386 .F6 1758a

The Physical Object

Pagination
22, [2] p. ;
Number of pages
22

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OL6420058M
LCCN
41014324

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