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The life of Benjamin Franklin : with many choice anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man, never before published by any of his biographers / by M. L. Weems.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection E302.6.F8 W39 1829
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke), 1759-1825.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Franklin, Benjamin.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Block, Gordon (donor)
- Barker, H.E. (Harry Ellsworth), 1862-1943 (bookseller).
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Uriah Hunt, 1829.
- Notes:
- Ford ascribes many of the events in this biography to Weem's "lively imagination"--cf. Ford, P.L. Franklin, p. 181.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy purchased by Gordon Block from Harry E. Barker, a dealer in Lincoln artifacts. Included is a note by Barker providing evidence for Lincoln having read this title, possibly in this edition (though not this particular copy).
- Cited in:
- Checklist Amer. imprints 41468
- OCLC:
- 3009748
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