hardcover, dust jacket
2006 · New Castle, Delaware
by Green, James N. & Peter Stallybrass
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press & Library Company of Philadelphia & The British Library, 2006. hardcover, dust jacket. Franklin, Ben. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 192 pages. Benjamin Franklin, Writer and Printer begins by focusing on Franklin's career as a printer, from his apprenticeship to his retirement in 1748, by which time he had created the largest printing business in colonial America. His success as a printer was based not only on his newspaper and the popular almanacs he published but also on his own writings, first for his brother's press in Boston and then for his own press in Philadelphia. Most of his early writing (truncated)