How History Unfolds on Paper: Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part IX
Thu, Apr 18, 2024 12:00PM EDT
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![[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. -- [FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790)]....](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/xl/3530/35301933.jpeg?t=1VRZVk)
Lot 383
[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. -- [FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790)]....
Estimate: $400 - $800
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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. -- [FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790)].?The?Universal?Asylum, and Columbian Magazine. Philadelphia: William Young,?May?1790. Vol. IV, No. 5. 8vo (235 x 146 mm). Engraved frontispiece (spotting). Original printed wrappers with vignette by Thackara & Vallance, stitched, uncut (spine mostly perished, edges worn, spotting).?Provenance: I. Thomas (contemporary signature on front wrapper, new tiny notations to Benjamin Franklin essay). Early American magazine containing inside page headline, ?A plan?for improving?the?condition of?the?free blacks,? with 3-pp.?printing of?the?plan by?the?Pennsylvania Society for Promoting?the?Abolition of Slavery to gradually end slavery in?the?United States, dated 9 November?1789,?and signed in type by ??B. FRANKLIN,? President of?the?Society.? This issue also contains a 5-pp.?essay titled, ?History of the?Life and Character of Benjamin Franklin,? published in?the?immediate aftermath of Franklin?s death. Also includes Franklin?s ?Of the Employment of Time, and of Indolence?? Evans 23008.
