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The works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin : consisting of essays, humourous, moral, and literary, with his life / written by Himself.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS745 .A2 1837b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Standardized Title:
- Selections. English. 1837
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Portraits.
- Franklin, Benjamin.
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Portraits.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 328 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (wood engravings) ; 14 cm
- Manufacture:
- Keighley : R. Aked.
- Other Title:
- Franklin's life & essays.
- Place of Publication:
- Halifax [England] : Printed for William Milner, 1837.
- Notes:
- Illustrations engraved by W. Brown, apparently after his own designs.
- A collection of popular pieces of Franklin edited by Benjamin Vaughan and published together with a re-translation of the autobiography from the French translation of Gibelin, and Henry Steuber's continuation.
- Earlier editorial work done by Richard Price, who died in 1791.
- Issued in publisher's cloth with gilt spine title: Franklin's life & essays.
- Originally prepared for publication in 1791, but delayed until 1793.
- Local Notes:
- Imperfect: p. vii-viii wanting.
- Cited in:
- Cf. Ford, P.L. Franklin 517
- OCLC:
- 9457174
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