The Immortal Mentor title page

period print · 1810

type:period print

year:1810

citation:Cornaro, Luigi; Franklin, Benjamin; Scott, Thomas. The Immortal Mentor, or, Man's Unerring Guide to a Healthy, Wealthy, & Happy Life. Compiled by M. L. Weems. Mill-Hill near Trenton: Daniel Fenton; printed by Brown and Merritt, Philadelphia, 1810. Wikimedia Commons / Internet Archive scan (2558026R.nlm.nih.gov), Public Domain Mark.

LINK

https://archive.org/details/2558026R.nlm.nih.gov

SUMMARY

Title page of the 1810 American compilation The Immortal Mentor, published by Daniel Fenton at Mill-Hill near Trenton and printed by Brown and Merritt in Philadelphia. The volume includes Luigi Cornaro's Discourses on the Sober Life alongside Benjamin Franklin's Way to Wealth and Thomas Scott's Sure Guide to Happiness. The title page was downloaded from the Internet Archive item page; the corresponding Wikimedia Commons file record was consulted for the public-domain scan metadata. Used to show how Cornaro's testimonial diet text circulated as a general manual for health, wealth, happiness, and long life.

NOTES

Title page of an 1810 American compilation carrying Cornaro’s sober-life text into a broader self-improvement market.