MARC Record from Oregon Libraries

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099 $aEvans 41122
100 10 $aFranklin, Benjamin,$d1706-1790.
240 10 $aWay to wealth.
245 10 $aFather Abraham's speech to a great number of people, at a vendue of merchant-goods;$h[microform] /$cintroduced to the publick by Poor Richard, (a famous Pennsylvanian conjurer and almanack-maker) in answer to the following questions. Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times? Won't these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we be ever able to pay them? What would you advise us to?
260 0 $a[Boston] :$bPrinted and sold by Benjamin Mecom, at the new printing-office, near the Town-House, in Boston.,$c[1760]
300 $a16 p., [1] folded leaf :$bill. ;$c18 cm. (12mo)
500 $aA collection of the sayings of Poor Richard, presented in the form of a speech, and variously known as Father Abraham's speech, The way to wealth, and La science du Bonhomme Richard. First published as the introduction to Poor Richard's almanac for 1758.
500 $aSigned on p. 16: Richard Saunders.
500 $aThe frontispiece, printed on the folded leaf, depicts "Father Abraham in his study" and is dated '1760' in the upper corner. On either side and below are verses addressed to Father Abraham. Below is the imprint: Printed by Benjamin Mecom, at the new printing-office, (near the Town-House, in Boston) where books are sold, and printing-work done, cheap.
500 $aSignatures: [A]⁴ B⁴.
500 $aEvans, in recording the first edition, printed by Mecom in 1758, mistakenly gives a description of this, the second edition.
510 4 $aBristol$cB2127.
510 4 $aShipton & Mooney$c41122.
533 $aMicrofiche.$b[New York :$cReadex Microprint,$d1985]$e11 x 15 cm.$f(Early American imprints. First series ; no. 41122)
650 0 $aMaxims.
650 0 $aSuccess.
650 0 $aWealth.
752 $aUnited States$bMassachusetts$dBoston.
830 0 $aEarly American imprints.$nFirst series ;$vno. 41122.
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994 $alaw
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