Beschreibung:

FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN] NIXON, WILLIAM. Prosody made easy. Wherein, the rules are more brief, comprehensive, and perspicuous, than... ... Philadelphia: printed and sold by William Spotswood, sold also by Mr. Hugh Gaine, bookseller, New-York; Wright & Co. Charleston, South Carolina; and Spotswodd [sic] & Clarke, booksellers, Baltimore, 1786. First American edition. Marbled boards of the period. 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (19 x 12 cm); xiii [last leaf numbered xvi as usual], [3], 36 pp. Binding rather worn, possibly rebacked, toned within. With a rather fulsome dedication to Benjamin Franklin with a letter of Franklin to the author reprinted on page vi. Evans 19867; Ford, Franklin 928. C Collection from the Estate of Robert Rieber