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[FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE]. –– [BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA – LEAF BOOK]. CATO, Marcus Porcius (234–149 BCE). –– FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706–1790). Cato’s Moral Distichs Reproduced from the edition printed in Philadelphia in 1735 by Benjamin Franklin. [San Francisco:] The Book Club of California, 1939. 8vo. Publisher’s olive-green cloth gilt (tiny puncture to upper cover near hinge through to inside joint at margin). LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 copies printed at the Ward Ritchie Press. Tipped in with an ORIGINAL LEAF FROM THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN EDITION (pp. 335–336) of the Church of Scotland Prayer Book, Philadelphia, 1745. BCC Publication No. 57.