COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Books Internet Archive
Record
Author:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Author (contributor):
French Americana Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library)
Author (contributor):
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords (1776)
Author (contributor):
Pennsylvania.
Author (contributor):
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1766).
Author (contributor):
Merriam, Olin Lane.
Author (contributor):
Penn, Richard, approximately 1736-1811.
Author (contributor):
L'Ecuy, J.-B. 1740-1834. (Jean-Baptiste),
Author (contributor):
Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817.
Author (contributor):
Quétant, Antoine-François, 1733-1823.
Title:
La science du Bonhomme Richard, ou Moyen facile de payer les impôts. /
Publisher:
Chez Ruault libraire rue de la Harpe
Begin Publication Date:
1777
MMS Id (Alma identifier):
991014402709706966
Permanent Call Number:
D777 .F832s
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 32478
Subjects:
Great Britain.--Stamp Act (1765)
Subjects:
Success.
Subjects:
Pennsylvania--Politics and government--1775-1865.
Subjects:
United States--History--Causes.--Revolution, 1775-1783
Subjects:
Booksellers' catalogs--France--1777.
Subjects:
Imprint 1777.
General Note:
"Despite the title, this work is really a compilation from various sources of documents relating to America in some way and assumed a publication life of its own apart from the separate printings of B. Franklin's 'Science.'"--Echeverria & Wilkie.; "Printed at Paris."--Echeverria & Wilkie.; Signatures: A-F¹² G⁶; Title vignette: pastoral scene with two figures.; "La science du Bonhomme Richard," p. [1]-26, was translated by Antoine-François Quétant. "Poor Richard's speech had originally appeared in 1757 as 'Father Abraham's speech to a great number of people at a vendue of merchant-goods,' and came to be known as 'The way to wealth.'"--Echeverria & Wilkie.; "Interrogatoire de M. Franklin devant la Chambre des Communes," translated by Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, p. 27-81.; "Constitution de la République de Pensylvanie, telle qu'elle a été établie par la Commission Générale Extraordinaire ... ," p. 82-145.; "Interrogatoire de M. Penn a la barre du Parlement d'Angleterre," translated by Quétant and Jean-Baptiste l'Écuy, p. 146-151.; Bookseller's advertisements, p. [1]-4 at end.
Local Note:
John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in contemporary sheep, with marbled paper boards.; John Carter Brown Library copy gift of the JCB Associates.; Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy: Olin Lane Merriam: bookplate.