The works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin : consisting of his Life written by himself : together with Essays humorous, moral, & literary, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Contributor:

Price, Richard, 1723-1791.

Stueber, Henry, 1770?-1792.

Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835, editor.

Maverick, P. R. (Peter Rushton), 1755-1811, engraver.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 27007.

Standardized Title:

Works. 1794

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Franklin, Benjamin.

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Portraits.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Portraits.

Physical Description:

2 volumes in 1 : 1 portrait ; 17 cm (8vo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

New York : Printed by Tiebout & Obrian for H. Gain, V. Nutter, R. McGill, T. Allen, J, Read, E. Duyckinck, & Co. and Edward Mitchell no. 9, Maiden Lane., [1794]

Notes:

"A reprint of the first London edition. Though paged for two volumes, there is no title to the second part, and they were always issued together."--Ford, P.L. Franklin bibliography, 1889. The American Antiquarian Society copy has an identical engraved title page at the beginning of each of the two volumes.

Edited by Benjamin Vaughan. Preface to v. 1 includes a letter from Richard Price. Pages 108-164 of v. 1 have the continuation of Franklin's Life written by Henry Stueber.

Date of publication supplied by Evans.

Pagination: v. 1, [1], 6-174 p., 2 leaves of plates; v. 2, [1], 4-139, [5] p., 1 leaf of plates.

Frontispiece portrait and title pages engraved by P.R. Maverick.

"Extracts from the last will and testament of Dr. Franklin."--v. 1, p. 165-174.

Note to the binders, p. 140, regarding folding of signature A of v. 1, and noting the second gathering F of v. 2.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 27007).

Cited in:

Evans 27007

OCLC:

55836687