Title page of the second number of "The American Magazine." From the file in the possession of the New York Historical Society, the only copies known to be in existence. The title page of the first number is missing. Size 318" x 6".

Title page of the "General Magazine," the second magazine established in the Colonies. It bears the coronet of the Prince of Wales, of Hanoverian ancestry, which accounts for the German motto. Original in the Ridgway Branch of the Philadelphia Public Library. Size 21" x 6".

Political State of the British Colonies." The publication of the two magazines had been preceded by a wordy dispute in the newspapers between Franklin and John Webbe, the editor of the "American Magazine." Franklin claimed that the idea of publishing a magazine in the American Colonies originated with him and that he had concluded with Webbe an agreement to edit it, but that Webbe had broken faith, and had betrayed Franklin by laying the plan before Bradford and inducing him to enter into an agreement on better terms than those arranged for with Franklin.

On the title page of the "General Magazine” appeared a wood cut reproduction of the Prince of Wales' coronet with three plumes and the motto "Ich dien." The contents consisted of theological controversy, proceedings of Parliament, governors' speeches, and extracts from books, very little of the matter being original, and practically none of it of the interesting character of that to be found in the "Gazette" and "Poor Richard's Almanack." The information was useful, but not calculated to attract a wide circle of readers.

The magazine edited by Webbe and issued by Bradford lasted three months. Of Franklin's "General Magazine" six of the monthly numbers were published. It contained sixty pages, 2 x 5 inches in size, and was set in type corresponding to modern six point and ten point solid. Only

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FRANKLIN, at the Poft-Office in Philadelphia,
on Wednesday, the 11th. of April 1744. at Nine
a Clock in the Morning; And, for Difpatch, the
lowest Price is mark'd in each Book.

The Sale to continue Three Weeks, and no longer;
and what then remains will be fold at an advanced
Price.

Those Perfons that live remote, by fending their
Orders and Money to faid B. FRANKLIN, may
depend on the fame Juftice as if present.

Announcing a sale of books.

Original in the possession of the Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia. Size 23" x 5".

GAL. II, 1.

But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him
to the Faces because he was to be blamed,

Prins and Sold by B. FRANKLIN, M,DCC,XLI,

Title page that is interesting because showing a typographical error, from which Benjamin Franklin's work was usually singularly free. Original in Ridgway Branch of the Philadelphia Public Library. Size 3′′ x 5′′.