Author: Franklin, Benjamin
Title: Curious Facetious Letters of Benjamin Franklin Hithertoo Unpublished
Description: Printed for Private Circulation, 1898. Hardcover. Limited edition. Full parchment titled boards. Marbled endpapers. 200 copies: 10 on vellum, 190 on Whatman hand-made paper, this is copy no. 175. Contains five of Franklin's facetious letters, including one to Dr. Priestley, one to the Royal Academy of Brussels, and the infamous, Advising a Young Man as to the Selection of a Mistress. The final two letters appear here in their original French tongue, without benefit of translation. Rest in English. Vellum boards are a little marked and front board a little bowed. Internally no marks, some toning of endpapers. See scans. . Near Very Good

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