(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT) The Charters of the Province of Pen

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FRANKLIN IMPRINT (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) The Charters of the Province of Pensilvania and City of Philadelphia. Bound with, as issued, A Collection of All the Laws of the Province of Pennsylvania and An Appendix. Folio, contemporary calf, worn, front cover detached; front free endpaper pasted down to title along edge, lacking rear free endpaper, intermittent foxing, minor marginal dampstaining; early owner's signature on title page. Philadelphia: B. Franklin, 1742 [1743]

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This project began in 1737, when Franklin had just been appointed as clerk of the colony's General Assembly, a role he found agreeable, "as, besides the pay for the immediate service as clerk, the place gave me a better opportunity of keeping up an interest among the members, which secur'd to me the business of printing the votes, laws, paper money, and other occasional jobs for the public, that, on the whole, were very profitable" (from his Autobiography). Evans 5033; Miller 288; Sabin 59973, 59982.