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CURIOUS AND FACETIOUS LETTERS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Hitherto Unpublished
Limited to 200 numbered copies, of which only ten are in vellum binding. This book is copy no. 43 printed on Whatman paper. Contains a small collection of humorous letters by Benjamin Franklin. Front pastedown has leather bookplate indicating Henry William Poor's library. Also contains pencil inscription noting: "From the library of noted bibliophile, Henry William Poor, and with his leather bookplate. [Poor Catalogue Vol. II, No. 478]." Top board and title page printed in red & black. Vellum covers warped and soiled. Hinge starting between the free front endpaper and the first blank. Page edges tanned. Numbers stamped and written in ink on the verso of the front free endpaper.
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND RETROSPECTIVE MISCELLANY, CONTAINING ...
by Poole, Edward R.
First and only edition. (Lowndes p.1912; Ulrich and Kup p.146; Halkett and Laing p.198 though pagination is stated incorrectly). Lowndes says that "this gentleman issued notices of a translation or Richard de Bury's Philobiblon, a corpus Bibliographicum, and other small works, which never appeared." This periodical contains a 12 page biography of de Bury with numerous references. Wear along hinges with part of the top of the spine missing. Covers detached. Unusual to find still preserved in the original binding.
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