Poor Richard's Almanack. By Benjamin Franklin (Richard Saunders philomath); Selections from the prefaces, apothegms and rimes with a facsimile in reduction of the almanack for 1733 edited by Benjamin E. Smith
New York, New York: The Century Co., 1898. Hardcover. Pocket-size, leather-bound volume with marvelous embossed designs on covers (small scenes of people at work, animals, etc.) and spine (suns, stars and moons), gilt edges, marbled endpapers. 221, [26] pp. frontispiece portrait. Utterly charming, this little volume. Here are reproduced his..... More