Benjamin Franklin's First Government Printing: The PA General Loan Office Mortgage Register of 1729, and Subsequent Franklin Mortgage Registers and ... of the American Philosophical Society, 635)

by Keith Arbour

As one of the earliest productions of the printing office of Benjamin Franklin and Hugh Meredith, the 1729 General Loan Office Mortgage Register provides insights into the economic and social life of the American colonies in the early 18th century. Arbour places the manuscript in its historical, political, biographical, and bibliographical context and provides an examination of the typographical evidence for the precise dating of the Register. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

90 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1999