The Collection of Franklin Imprints in the Museum of the Curtis Publishing Company

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Excerpt from The Collection of Franklin Imprints in the Museum of the Curtis Publishing Company: With a Short-Title Check List of All the Books, Pamphlets, Broadsides, &C., , Known to Have Been Printed by Benjamin Franklin In the year 1896 the late Henry V. Massey began to collect Franklin Imprints. He was a man of wide knowledge and of rare good judgment, and was untiring in his search for material bearing the imprint of Franklin, or on which he was known to have been employed. During the eight years of his active collecting he succeeded in bringing together 174 separate items, exclusive of a long run of the Pennsylvania Gazette. It was one of the largest collections that had ever been formed, and was remarkable for the very high average condition of the books, as well as for the large number of titles, yet so quietly had they been gathered that the collection was unknown except to a few of his intimate friends. In 1908 the collection was purchased in its entirety by Mr. John Gribbel, through whose well-directed efforts the number of titles has been not only almost doubled, in itself a remarkable achievement, but the collection enriched by the addition of many items of the greatest rarity. In 1915, feeling that the most appropriate owner for the collection was the company publishing The Saturday Evening Post, the journal direct in descent from Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette, Mr. Gribbel transferred it to The Curtis Publishing Company. Of particular interest, as illustrating the history of Franklin's press, is the fact that the collection contains the first publication on which Franklin's name appeared as publisher, the first book on which he is known to have worked while in London, the first book on which he worked when he and Meredith set up in business for themselves, the first book to bear his imprint alone after Meredith left him, the last book to bear his name issued from his Philadelphia press, and specimens from the press that he set up at Passy, for his own amusement, while he was Ambassador to France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.