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[Franklin Imprint]. [BLACKMORE, Richard].Letters between Theophilus and Eugenio...on the Moral Pravity
(FRANKLIN IMPRINT). [BLACKMORE, Richard]. Letters between Theophilus and Eugenio on the Moral Pravity of Manm, and the Means of His Restoration. Wrote in the East-Indes, and Now First
Published from the Original Manuscript.
Phila.: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin, 1747. iv, 64pp.
With the bookplate on verso of the front free endpaper of the noted pioneering Americanist, George Brinley.
"This series of letters once erroneously ascribed to the pen of B. Franklin by Sabin [citing the catalog to the Menzies sale] was printed originally in London" - Miller.
Miller locates ten copies. With the exception of this same copy that was sold at the Stuart Karu sale at Sothebys June 16, 1992 RarebookHub lists copies at auction in 2019, 2017, and 2008, all of which were stained or damaged, and prior to that one has not been on the auction market since 1906.
A theological dialogue 'wrote in the East-Indies, and now first published from the original manuscript' — one of the odder titles Franklin printed on speculation in the last year before he took Hall as partner. With an early bookplate.
- Date
- Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin, 1747
- Author / maker
- [Blackmore, Sir Richard]
- Condition
- Small 4to. 19th-century triple gilt-ruled brown morocco, raised spine bands, compartments gilt triple rule, Elaborate inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, T.e.g., housed in custom cloth clamshell box with green morocco spine labels. Very old water staining, each leaf interleaved, else very good.
- References
- Campbell 361. Evans 5985. Hildeburn 1019. Miller 422. Sabin 25528.
“[Franklin Imprint]. [BLACKMORE, Richard].Letters between Theophilus and Eugenio...on the Moral Pravity.” The Soiferman Collection, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. EIS LIBRIS, https://eislibris.com/objects/franklin-imprint-blackmore-richard-letters-between-theophilus-and-eugenio-on-the (accessed [date]).
