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FRANKLIN, Benjamin (printer) - Samuel JOHNSON. Ele

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Philadelphia: B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1752. 2 parts in one volume, 8vo (188 x 121 mm). General title, half-titles and sectional titles to each part, Table appearing between the two parts. Woodcut tailpieces throughout. Contemporary sheep, blind tooled double fillet. Condition: upper corner of general title clipped with loss to "Philosophica:", lacks endpapers, rear pastedown torn; rubbed. first complete edition of "the first textbook in moral philosophy written in the colonies" (Miller). "Johnson's work ... consisted of a reprinting of his Ethica (Boston, 1746), enlarged and amended, and his newly composed Noetica, which he asked BF to consider printing in the spring of 1750" (Miller). Shortly after the publication of this work, his first to be published in Philadelphia, Johnson (1696-1772) became the first President of King's College, i.e. Columbia University. Evans 6859; Hildeburn 1262; Miller 554; Sabin 36291.

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