Beschreibung:

[Franklin (Benjamin)] The Art of Making Money Plenty in Every Man's Pocket, engraved throughout with vignette title and rebus, printed on 8 leaves on rectos only, contemporary ink inscription "J.Scott Hayward 1826" to head of title, a little foxed and soiled, original stiff printed wrappers, worn, frayed at corners, Edinburgh, Edward Mitchell [c.1820] § Rede (Leman Thomas) The Art of Money Getting, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece with scenes of a man's life by Joe Lisle, lightly offset, some foxing, one leaf stained, becoming loose, contemporary cloth, a little stained, 1828 § Stages of Human Life (The), 16pp., printed on rectos only, 8 hand-coloured wood-engraved illustrations, original stiff pictorial blue wrappers, a little soiled, n.p., [c.1850], 8vo et infra (3) ⁂ The first is Franklin's famous rebus, first published separately in 1791 but originally from his Poor Richard's Almanac of 1758. Library Hub lists the British Library copy only in the UK, and 2 UK copies of the second item (BL and Oxford University).