Benjamin Franklin's First Government Printing: The Pa General Loan Office Mortgage Register of 1729, and Subsequent Franklin Mortgage Registers and Bo (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780871698957)

Among the items acquired in 1996 by Jay Snider, the collector of printed Americana, are 278 partially printed, early Pennsylvania mortgage forms. The royal folio forms are bound together, as issued, in full calf stamped with tools thought to have belond to William Davies, a bookbinder who flourished in Philadelphia from 1722 to 1740. The mortgage forms include printed preambles identifying Pennsylvania's General Loan Office trustees as the mortgagees, and manuscript completions dated as early as Sept. 23, 1729. It has been established that it was printed by Benjamin Franklin and Hugh Meredith with their firsst font of pica type. This illustrated study places the Snider volume in its historical, political, biographical, and bibliographical context. Index.

Author: Keith Arbour
ISBN-10: 0871698951
ISBN-13: 9780871698957
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1999
Pages: 90
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.31d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2000 pg. 191