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(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) George Fisher. The American Instructor; or Young Man's Best Companion (Franklin imprint). 4 [of 6] plates. v, 378 pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked with portion of original backstrip laid down; lacking free endpapers, lacking plates following pages 174 and 376 as usual, general edge wear and foxing, outer leaves worn with slight loss of text, but lacking most of the final leaf; early ownership inscriptions of Levis Pennock on title page and elsewhere. In modern 1/4-calf folding case. Philadelphia: Benjamin Franklin and David Hall, 1748
Stated 9th edition, but 1st American edition. Franklin edited the work extensively for his colonial audience, and added a few new features such as short histories of the colonies under "A Short Account of the British Plantations" (pages 334-337) and his own "Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One" (pages 375-377, here defective), filled with distinctive Franklin aphorisms: "Remember that Time is Money. . . . Remember that Credit is Money. . . . Money can beget Money, and its Offspring can beget more." Evans 6238; Miller 439.
