Works of the late Doctor Benjamin Franklin
consisting of his life written by himself : together with Essays, humorous, moral & literary, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator : in two volumes.
by Benjamin Franklin
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Works of the late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his Life, written by himself, together with Essays, humourous, moral & literary, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator. In two volumes.
1794, Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson
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Works of the late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his life, written by himself; together with essays, humorous, moral & literary, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator.
1793, Printed for P. Wogan, P. Byrne, J. Moore, and W. Jones.
in English
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Works of the late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his life written by himself : together with Essays, humorous, moral & literary, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator : in two volumes.
1793, Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row
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Edition Notes
LC copy has boookplate of Henry Stevens. Signed binding: "R. de Coverly for H. Stevens, 1882".
Ford, P.L. Franklin bibliography, 437
ESTC T152381
Engraved t.p., with vignette portrait of Franklin.
Added engraved t.p. without date; otherwise a duplicate of that dated 1793.
"A collection of the "popular" pieces of Franklin, together with a retranslation of the autobiography from the French translation of Gibelin, and Stuber's continuation. The editing was done by Benjamin Vaughan ... The first issue of this edition contains an "erratum." There is a second issue in which these errors were corrected." Cf. Ford.
In the present copy one leaf of errata (3 lines) is bound at end of v. 1.
Earlier editorial work done by Richard Price, who died in 1791.
Vol. 1: [1], vi-ix, [3], 317, [3] p.; v. 2: [4], 268 p.
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