Author: SAUNDERS, RICHARD ; FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN
Title: Poor Richard's Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758
Description: New York, Paddington Press. 1976. (ISBN: 0846701200) Hard Cover, 11.25 x 8.75 inches. Ill.: Norman Rockwell. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to top of page edges and minor bumping to upper corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with rubbing to upper edge and sunning to spine. 300pp. A comprehensive collection of the texts of all the editions of Poor Richard's Almanacks. The introduction, written by the American man of letters Van Wyck Brooks, describes the Almanacks in detail. The illustrations are by Norman Rockwell. They consist of six full color oil paintings and some forty line drawings. Near Fine/Very Good.

Keywords: America, 18th Century, Prefaces, Verses, Historical, Scientific Observations, Philosophy Philosophy 0846701200 Norman Rockwell


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