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Engraved Linen-Backed Broadside. (Franklin, Benjamin.) "Bowles's Moral Pictures, or Poor Richard Illustrated. Being Lessons for the Young and the Old, on Industry, Temperance, Frugality by the Late Dr. Benj. Franklin." Manchester: Bancks & Co., n.d. [1796?] 18 1/2 x 23 1/4 inches; 470 x 590 mm. Some creasing & darkening along folds, occasional light foxing. Oval portrait of Franklin + 24 oval vignettes illustrating Franklin's maxims, which are printed on the ovals' borders. Framed.
Presumed to be the earliest issue of this broadside illustrating maxims from Franklin's Way to Wealth. This broadside was also issued later in the 1790s in London by Bowles & Carver. Attesting to Franklin's international status in the decade following his death.
See Ford 137*