Benjamin Franklin's First Government Printing
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Benjamin Franklin's First Government Printing

The PA General Loan Office Mortgage Register of 1729, and Subsequent Franklin Mortgage Registers and Bonds Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 89, part 5)

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Benjamin Franklin's First Government Printing

The PA General Loan Office Mortgage Register of 1729, and Subsequent Franklin Mortgage Registers and Bonds Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 89, part 5)

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Location symbols
  4. Discovery and Introduction
  5. I. The 1729 Register and Subsequent Related Work in Context
  6. II. Evidence for the precise dating of the 1729 register and the first and second printed continuations of the 1726 register
  7. III. Franklin and Meredith's, Franklin's, and Franklin and Hall's Mortgage Bond printing: Additions to Miller
  8. Appendix: Index to mortgages recorded in the 1729 Pennsylvania General Loan Office Mortgage Register
  9. Index