(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT) [Franklin Benjamin] Poor Richard Im

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(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) [Franklin, Benjamin.] Poor Richard Improved: Being an Almanack . . . for the Year of our Lord 1750. [16 of 18 leaves.] 12mo, stitched; lacking final two leaves, unevenly trimmed; signature of early owner and ink blot on title page. Philadelphia: B. Franklin and D. Hall, [1749]

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With a typically amusing preface by "R. Saunders" in which he blames the printer (Franklin's own firm) for several typographical errors in the 1749 Almanack: "The was Mr. Printer's Fault; who being also somewhat niggardly of his Vowels, as well as profuse of his Consonants . . . to the utter demolishing of all Sense in those Lines." Also includes a note on the effects of smallpox among the American Indians (under April). Church 968; Drake 9716; Miller 469.