Father Abraham's speech to a great number of people, at a vendue of merchant-goods
By: introduced to the publick by Poor Richard, a famous Pennsylvania conjurer, and almanack-maker ... ; to which are added seven curious pieces of writing.
Contributors: Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress)
Series: Photostat Americana ;; 2nd ser., no. 104.
Publisher: Printed and sold by Benjamin Mecom ...
Published: 1758
Place of publication: Boston, New-England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 22
Subjects: Success; Maxims, American -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Photocopy. Boston : Massachusetts Historical Society, 1940. [24] p. ; 22 cm. (Photostat Americana ; 2nd ser., no. 104).
"Photostat Americana. Second series, 1936 ... photostated at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston"--P. [3], insert.
"No. 104 ... from the original in the Massachusetts Historical Society, April 1940. This is no. 9 in Wilberforce Eames's bibliography of Benjamin Mecom, Proceedings. American Antiquarian Society, XXXVIII, 326-327"--P. [1] insert.
This edition listed as Evans 8131 and as no. 107 in Ford, P.L. Franklin bibliography.
"Father Abraham's speech" signed: Richard Saunders.
First published in Poor Richard's almanac for 1758, and frequently reprinted under title: The way to wealth.
LC copy insert ([4] p.) mounted on front fly-leaf.
Table of contents: title: Father Abraham's speech; title: The welcome guinea: a poem; title: Consolation for the homely; title: A grand compliment to the ladies; title: The two sinners, the Pope, and the devil: a poetical tale; title: An infallible cure for love; title: An old song: tune, A cobbler there was; title: Poor Richard's description of his country wife Joan, in a song to the tune of The hounds are all out.