FRANKLIN SELLS HIS STAKE IN HIS PRINTING FIRM.


Pennsylvania Gazette, no 1905. Philadelphia: Franklin and Hall, June 27, 1765. 8 pp. Folio (395 x 250 mm). Disbound. Pages toned, some creasing at left margin.Among his many other talents, Benjamin Franklin was a successful printer and editor. In 1748, wanting to devote more time to his scientific interests, he took David Hall as a partner in his printing firm to run the daily operations. Their partnership ended in 1766, as this notice just under the masthead tells us: "As the partnership of FRANKLIN and HALL, Printers of the Paper, is now near expired, a Settlement of the Accounts betwixt them is become absolutely necessary; and there being a very considerable Number of Sums, both great and small, due to said Partnership, and many of them of a long Standing, this serves earnestly to request all indebted to them to make speedy Payment, otherwise they will be under the disagreeable Necessity of taking such Measures as cannot be pleasing to either Party."