Keimer, Elegy, 1723 (1r)

Because broadsides weren’t typically bound into books but rather distributed as single sheets, they often have very high loss rates. This is the only known copy of Keimer’s Elegy, which Benjamin Franklin describes in his Autobiography as having unusually been composed as Keimer set the type. This was the first work that Keimer published in America, and Franklin’s first known printing job in Philadelphia.

Because broadsides weren't typically bound into books but rather distributed as single sheets, they often have very high loss rates. This is the only known copy of Keimer's Elegy, which Benjamin Franklin describes in his Autobiography as having unusually been composed as Keimer set the type. This was the first work that Keimer published in America, and Franklin's first known printing job in Philadelphia.

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Samuel Keimer, An elegy on the much lamented death of the ingenious and well-belov’d Aquila Rose. Philadelphia: Samuel Keimer, 1723. (sig. 1r)

University of Pennsylvania, PS791.K45 E44 1723 (public domain)

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