Franklin, Benjamin.

[Printed letter from B. Franklin to a young friend, June 25th, 1745.].

NP: np, nd [ca. 1920]. First edition thus, 1/150 copies printed on Japan paper. Tall 8vo. (3) pp. [colophon plus two pages for a brief introduction and the letter]. Prints Franklin's eight points in justification for a young man taking an older woman as mistress. This is one of numerous 19th and 20th century printed editions of this letter. OCLC locates one copy (American Philosophical Society). Very good. (#5894). Item #58520

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