Father Abraham's speech to a great number of people, at a vendue of merchant-goods
Subtitle: introduced to the publick
By: by Poor Richard, a famous Pennsylvania conjurer, and almanack-maker ... to which are added seven curious pieces of writing.
Contributors: Stinehour Press.; Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress)
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
Other titles: Father Abraham's speech
Notes: Offset lithograph reproduction. Boston : G.K. Hall & Co., 1963. [26] p. ; 18 cm.
First published in Poor Richard's almanac for 1758, and frequently reprinted under title: The way to wealth.
Reproduction from the original in the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Reproduced in offset lithography by the Meriden Gravure Company. Design and text composed by the Stinehour Press, November, 1963.
Added cover title reads: Father Abraham's speech. Benjamin Franklin. From G.K. Hall & Co. With all good wishes. Christmas 1963.
Table of contents: title: Father Abraham's speech, introduced by Poor Richard; 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, wrote by one of our first New-England planters, on their management in those good old times. To the tune of A cobler there was, &c.; title: Poor Richard's description of his country wife Joan, in a song to the tune of The hounds are all out, &c.