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Lot 54
Sale 904 - Fine Press Books, Online Only
May 13, 2021
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[BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA]. [FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1705-1790)]. Cato’s Moral Distichs. Reproduced from the Edition Printed in Philadelphia in 1735 by Benjamin Franklin. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press for the Book Club of California, 1939.
8vo. Original leaf from the Church of Scotland Prayer Book, printed by Benjamin Franklin (Philadelphia, 1745), bound in; 24pp. facsimile of Cato's Moral Distichs printed by Franklin throughout. Original green cloth gilt.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 unnumbered copies printed by the Ward Ritchie Press for The Book Club of California, with an explanatory forward by Carl Van Doren. Original prospectus laid in. BCC 57.
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher