(AMERICAN REVOLUTION PRELUDE) The Pennsylvania Chronicle an

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) The Pennsylvania Chronicle, and Universal Advertiser. Volume II, 52 weekly 8-page issues complete. 428 pages. 4to, contemporary 1/4 calf, worn, front board detached; minor dampstaining to a few issues, intermittent foxing, occasional tears, apparently lacking supplements on pages 81-84 and 101-8; early owners' inscriptions on title page and first masthead, library tag and bookplate on front pastedown, small library tag on backstrip. Philadelphia, 30 January 1769 to 22 January 1770

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The Pennsylvania Chronicle was founded by patriot-printer William Goddard in 1767; his sister Mary Katherine Goddard was also involved with the publication. At least three pieces in this volume have been attributed to Benjamin Franklin, including pieces on pages 12, 73 and 186 (see Ford 608), as well as numerous other pre-revolutionary articles. Provenance: personal copy of the publisher William Goddard (1740-1817); thence to his son William Giles Goddard (1794-1846); donated in 1883 by his daughter Elizabeth Goddard Shepard (1829-1910) to the Rhode Island Historical Society; withdrawal stamps from circa 1970s.