SAMUEL KEIMER'S ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF AQUILA ROSE 1723 Benjamin Franklin's First
POB#59308
TITLE: Samuel Keimer's Elegy on the Death of Aquila Rose: Benjamin Franklin's first known Philadelphia printing job 1723
AUTHOR: Carmen D. Valentino; Samuel Keimer (1688-1742)
PUBLISHER: Philadelphia: Carmen D. Valentino
DATE: 2000
EDITION: Catalogue Fifty
DESCRIPTION: 12 pages, 27cm. Illustrated.
CONDITION NOTES: FINE except for a small opaque sticker over the price on p. 9
BINDING: Fine press pamphlet.
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Bookseller catalog for sale of the scrapbook of historian and antiquarian Samuel
Hazard (1784-1870). The catalogues documents an item which includes a range of early American prints and
broadsides, including a notable rarity. That rarity is the only known copy of 1723 Elegy on the Death
of Aquila Rose with a headpiece possibly carved by Benjamin Franklin,
apprentice.
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The catalogue is an exemplar of archival description and contextual essays. Price of the item? $500,000, although that figure is obscured in the present copy.
