"Love your enemies for they will tell you your faults"

Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, (1755). First edition. 16mo. (36) pp. Illustrated with anatomical vignette woodcut and vignette calendrical woodcuts. Original stab-sewn self-wrappers; light wear and creasing to front and rear leaves; very faint dampstaining to first leaf; light spotting to final leaf, same starting; old faint pencil notation in top edge of final page; in blue cloth chemise. Church 1008; Drake 9776; Evans 7420; Ford 102; Hildeburn 1436; Miller 608; ESTC W22790 (six locations)

A fine, rare, and unsophisticated copy of one of Franklin's famed Poor Richard almanacs, a defining work of his printing career, and one of the last issues printed and edited by him. Miller locates only 20 copies (some of which are incomplete or defective), from a likely print run of around 10,000.

According to RBH, this is the fifth copy to appear at auction since 2005 (one of which was partially defective).