An account of the new invented Pennsylvanian fire-places
Subtitle: wherein their construction and manner of operation is particularly explained, their advantages above every other method of warming rooms demonstrated, and all objections that have been raised against the use of them, answered and obviated : with directions for putting them up, and for using them to the best advantage, and a copper-plate, in which the several parts of the machine are exactly laid down, from a scale of equal parts.
Contributors: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, printer.; Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886, former owner.; Thornton, John Wingate, 1818-1878, former owner.; Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed and sold by B. Franklin
Published: 1744
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 37
Subjects: Fireplaces -- Early works to 1800; Stoves -- Early works to 1800; Heating -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: LC copy has bookplate of Henry Stevens.
Evans 5395
Miller, C.W.  Franklin, 349
Ford, P.L.  Franklin bibliography, 41
ESTC W37265
Attributed to Franklin. Illustrations drawn by Lewis Evans and engraved in Boston, probably by James Turner. Cf. Miller.
Signatures: pi1 A-D⁴ E⁴(-E4) (leaf E2 signed E3)
Advertisement and errata: t.p. verso.