Price: $400.00
SKU: 100323
ARTIST: Mathew Carey
MEDIUM: Letterpress pamphlet
DATE: 1809
EDITION SIZE: Oval image size 3 3/4 x 2 1/2 " (9.5 x 6.3 cm)
DESCRIPTION: Mathew Carey's "Franklin Almanac for the year 1809" early American imprint, rare and antiquarian pamphlet with engraving of Benjamin Franklin.<br><br> Published in Philadelphia for Mathew Carey, printed by early American woman printer Lydia R. Bailey.<br><br> Franklin image based upon the portrait made by the royal Manufacture Nationale at Sèvres between 1778 to 1779..
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CONDITION: Fair condition, significant foxing and staining, creasing, tearing and paper aging.
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