The Cato Major
James Logan — Penn's secretary, chief justice, the most learned man in the province — translated Cicero on old age; Franklin printed it in red and black with a care he gave to nothing else from his press, and in his preface called the book 'a happy Omen, that Philadelphia shall become the Seat of the American Muses.' It is the book Franklin printed for himself rather than for a customer, and the one collectors of his printing want first.
The collection's copy carries the eighteenth-century ownership inscription of David Edwards.
M.T. Cicero's Cato Major, or His Discourse of Old Age: With Explanatory Notes
Franklin's most celebrated piece of printing and the first classical translation published in America, in red and black. Logan, the Penns' secretary and the most learned man in the province, made the translation; Franklin's preface calls the book 'a happy Omen, that Philadelphia shall become the Seat of the American Muses.' This copy carries the eighteenth-century ownership inscription of David Edwards.