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1890 From Printing Office to the Court of St. James: The Boyhood and Manhood of Benjamin Franklin
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Description
First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce
The scarce first edition of this work.
Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and three plates. Collated, complete.
A lively description of the life of the American polymath, and drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Inscription for Mr R D Mariner from Miss Collins, dated 1982, and further inscription New Year's gift inscription, dated 1890 to head of page 1.
Condition
In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, smart, with handling marks to boards. Bumping to back strip heads and tails. Front hinge lightly strained but firmly held. Internally, firmly held. Inscription to recto of frontispiece, and further inscription to head of page 1. Pages clean and bright.
Very Good
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