Jun 27, 2024 - Sale 2675

Sale 2675 - Lot 142

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Poor Richard Illustrated: Lessons for the Young and Old on Industry, Temperance, Frugality &c. Engraving, 21 x 26¼ inches; minor dampstaining and edge wear. [Philadelphia]: N. Monroe, M.D., 1868

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Favorite Franklin aphorisms, illustrated with a portrait of Franklin and 24 vignettes engraved by Oliver Pelton. The same plate was used in at least 3 Boston printings from 1859 to 1887, but this Monroe issue does not appear in OCLC.