Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

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Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758...by Richard Saunders. Now Containing an Introduction by Van Wyck Brooks and embellish'd with illustrations by Norman Rockwell. Philadelphia: Newly set into type expressly for the Members of the Limited Editions Club, 1964.

Illustrated with pen drawings and oil paintings by famous American artist Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), this edition contains the "text of each of the twenty-six issues of Poor Richard's Almanack... For the most part, meteorological and astronomical material has been omitted, as well as a few factual articles..."

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Illustrations by Norman Rockwell.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)