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Plain truth: or, Serious considerations on the present state of the city of Philadelphia, and province of Pennsylvania
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Plain truth
Title
Plain truth: or, Serious considerations on the present state of the city of Philadelphia, and province of Pennsylvania. [electronic resource] / By a tradesman of Philadelphia. ; [Sixteen lines in Latin from Sallust]
Published
[Philadelphia : Printed [by Benjamin Franklin], in the year MDCCXLVII. [1747]
Physical Description
22, [2] p. ; (8vo)
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Notes
Attributed to Benjamin Franklin by Miller, who identifies him as the printer.
This printing is primarily a reimpression of the standing type of the first edition (Evans 5948). Leaf C4, blank in the first impression, here contains an English translation of the Latin excerpt from Sallust quoted on the title page, and the last line of text on p. 3 has been corrected; cf. Miller.
Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Dec. 3, 1747, seventeen days after the appearance of the first impression; cf. Miller.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 5949).
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 17, 2006
References
Evans, C. American bibliography, 5949
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1010a
Miller, C.W. Franklin, 417
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