Poor Richard Improved (1763)
A rare example of Franklin's famous Poor Richard Almanack.
This example is housed in a custom blue canvas slipcase with matching chemise. It is in exceptional condition, with very little folding, foxing, soiling, or fading as otherwise seen in examples of almanacs. Original stitching intact and in excellent condition. Certainly one of the finest extant examples of Franklin's famous Almanac .
One of the finest surviving examples of Franklin's almanac: original stitching intact, with very little of the folding, foxing, and soiling that almost every almanac shows, in a custom slipcase and chemise. Almanacs were made to be used up; this one was not.
- Date
- Philadelphia: B. Franklin and D. Hall, [1762]
- Author / maker
- Franklin, Benjamin [as Richard Saunders]
- Condition
- one of the finest extant examples of Franklin's Poor Richard.
In the catalogs: Catalog III, Franklin & Hall (Cat. III.AC)
