On balloons
Subtitle: a letter written from Passey, France, January sixteenth MDCCLXXXIV.
Contributors: Bixby, William K. 1857-1931, inscriber.; Merrymount Press.; Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Privately printed for his friends by W.K. Bixby
Published: 1922
Place of publication: Saint Louis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Balloons.
Other titles: Letter from Benjanim Franklin on balloons
Notes: LC copy has bookplate on front paste-down: "Purchased by the Aeronautical Archives, accession no. 11256". Has inscription on front fly-leaf: "Andrew W. Crawford, comps. of W.K. Bixby. St. Louis, May 1923".
Title on label mounted on cover: A Letter from Benjanim Franklin on balloons.
Includes a facsim. of the holograph letter and a title vignette of the balloon which was the original invention of Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier.
"Two hundred and fifty copies ... were printed on Vidalon paper for W.K. Bixby by D.B. Updike, Merrymount Press, Boston, October, 1922."