Poor Richard Illustrated. Lessons for the Young and Old on Industry, Temperance, Frugalisty &c. by Benjamin Franklin.

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• PUBLISHER: Published by T.O.H.P. Burnham, Boston.

• MEDIUM: Engraving,

  DATE: 1887.

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 16 3/4 x 22 7/8" (42.5 x 56 cm)

• DESCRIPTION: Favorite Franklin aphorisms.<br><br> Engraved by Oliver Pelton. Twenty-four rondelles, each a scene and an adage from Franklin's almanac. In the center is a portrait of Franklin. Decorative oak leaf acanthus surround each of the rondelles.<br><br> The same plate was used in at least 3 Boston printings from 1859 to 1887. The publisher of this print is Thomas Oliver Hazard Perry Burnham of Essex, Massachusetts. was born in Essex in 1814, and in the mid to late 1800’s he became a successful and affluent business man in Boston. He passed in 1891.

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Fair to good condition. Repaired puncture in lower left roundel. Some overall damp staining and short tears in lower margin.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Portraits , Revolutionary War Figures