Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin
Title: Poor Richard's almanac for 1850.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP01359000
CollectionID: CTRG94-B4773
PublicationDate: 18490101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
Notes: At head of title, v. 1, 2: Poor Richard. Issue for 1850 contains editorial matter of Franklin for 1733-1735; 1851 for 1736-1738; 1852 for 1739-1741. Title varies: v. 2, Poor Richard's alamanac for 1851; v. 3, Poor Richard's almanac for 1852. The autobiography is discontinued in 1852. No more published.
Collation: 3 v.; 19-20 cm
Benjamin Franklin, statesman, philosopher, and man of letters, was born in Boston in 1706 of Protestant parents. He entered Boston Grammar School when he was eight and later attended George Brown Ell's school. When he was twelve his father apprenticed him to his half-brother James as a printer. James was later the publisher of the New England Courant, where Franklin's first articles, The Dogood Papers, were published before he was seventeen. He went to Philadelphia in 1723 and pursued his trade of printer. He was befriended by William Keith, Governor of Pennsylvania, who offered to help the young man get started in business. Franklin left for England, where he hoped to arrange for the purchase of printing equipment. Arriving in London in 1724, he was soon deserted by Keith, and again turned to printing for a livelihood. His privately printed Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain (1725) introduced him to leading Deists and other intellectuals in London. A year later, he returned to Philadelphia, and by 1730 he had been appointed public printer for Pennsylvania. In 1731 he established the first circulation library in the United States; in 1743-44, The American Philosophical Society. In 1748 he retired from the trade of printer but continued to advise and back his partner and to draw profit from the business. Poor Richard's Almanack was his most spectacular success as a publisher, having gone through numerous editions and been translated in many languages. During the next thirty-five years he devoted himself largely to politics and diplomacy, but still wrote and engaged in scientific ventures. He resigned as Minister to France in 1785, returned to America, and was elected President of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Still concerned with the rights of the individual, he published papers encouraging the abolition of slavery. He died in Philadelphia in 1790.
Larzer Ziff is a research professor of English at Johns Hopkins University who has written extensively on American literary culture.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781684222810 |
| ISBN 10 | 1684222818 |
| Title | Poor Richard's Almanack |
| Author | Benjamin Franklin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Martino Fine Books |
| Year published | 2018-11-21 |
| Number of pages | 82 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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