Benjamin Franklin's First Government Printing: The Pennsylvania General Loan Office Mortgage Register of 1729 and Subsequent Franklin Mortgage Registers and BondsAmerican Philosophical Society, 1999 - 90 páginas Among the items acquired in 1996 by Jay Snider, the collector of printed Americana, are 278 partially printed, early Pennsylvania mortgage forms. The royal folio forms are bound together, as issued, in full calf stamped with tools thought to have belond to William Davies, a bookbinder who flourished in Philadelphia from 1722 to 1740. The mortgage forms include printed preambles identifying Pennsylvania's General Loan Office trustees as the mortgagees, and manuscript completions dated as early as Sept. 23, 1729. It has been established that it was printed by Benjamin Franklin and Hugh Meredith with their firsst font of pica type. This illustrated study places the Snider volume in its historical, political, biographical, and bibliographical context. Index. |
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Affembly American Philosophical Society Andrew Bradford Anno Domini Assembly Attributed to BF's Benjamin Franklin BF pica BF's press Bills of Credit blank mortgage forms broadsheets City Archives copies County Day of March Day of October Domini One Thoufand edition entituled faid Province faid Trustees Fifteenth Day Fishbourn Franklin and Meredith Franklin cast heading GEORGE the Second Hand paid Hands and Seals Historical Society Hundred and Forty Hundred and Thirty Imported sheets imprint interchangeably fet Jeremiah Langhorne Keimer letter h Loan Office Mortgage Loan Office register Loan Office trustees loans given pursuant manuscript marked Arms Meredith printed Miller 18 Mortgage Bond printed o'clock Odober Office Mortgage Register paper money Pennsylvania General Loan Philadelphia printed continuation printed for loans Province of Pennsylvania Quit-Rent RE-EMISSION recorded Shillings Snider volume Succeffors and Affigns thefe Prefents Thoufand Seven Hundred topmost flourish truly pay unto Twenty-fifth Day type and cast unto the faid verso whatfoever
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