April 12, 2024
1903 Benjamin Franklin - Lakeside Press GREEN 1st Book
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 1st Lakeside HC 1903First Volume EVER of 'The Lakeside Classics' VERY RARE! Only 1000 Books were made, this is a Quite Rare Volume. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Chicago: The Lakeside Press/R. R. Donnelley, 1903. 12mo, original full gilt dark green cloth, top edge gilt, as issued without DJ; 264pp. with sepia frontis portrait of Ben Franklin. First edition, first printing (in the "Lakeside Classics" series). John Vance Cheney edited this, the very rare inaugural volume of the "Lakeside Classics" series, issued every year at Christmas since 1903. (Lakeside Classics, No. 1.) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R. R.Donnelley & Sons, 1903. First printing of the first volume in the rare Lakeside Classics series.Small 8vo, dark green cloth gilt, frontispiece, 264 pp., top edge gilded. A very nice copy of this EXTREMELY rare and sought after book, the First Volume published in the much collected 'Lakeside Classics' series; which consists of over one hundred republished hard to find classic and western American history works in a superbly printed and handsomely bound uniform format. Every year, beginning in 1903, The Lakeside Press operated by R. R. Donnelley & Son, published these editions as Christmas gifts to their employees, stockholders, vendors and business
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