The works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin : in philosophy, politics, and morals / containing, beside all the writings published in former collections, his diplomatic correspendence, as minister of the United States, at the court of Versailles ; a variety of literary articles, and epistolary correspendence, never before published : with memoirs and anecdotes of his life.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 5036

Contributor:

Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823

Language:

English

Physical Description:

6 v. : (ports., v. 1, 4) folded map facsims. (1 folded) folded ill. ; 22 cm. (8vo)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : W. Duane, 1808-18.

Contents:

v. 1, [Autobiography]

v. 2, American politics before the revolution

v. 3, Philosophical. Essays and correspondence

v. 4, Political, before the revolution

v. 5-6, [Correspondence].

Notes:

Title varies: v. 1, Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ... written by himself, to a late period, and continued to the time of his death, by his grandson, William Temple Franklin ... v. 6, The works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, in philosophy, politics, and morals: containing his diplomatic correspondence ... his private epistolary correspondence, miscellaneous, literary, and philosophical subjects, between the years 1753 and 1790 ... Pub. from the originals, by his grandson, Wm. Temple Franklin.

Imprint varies; v. 1, Printed by T. S. Manning, 1818.-v. 2. 1809.-v. 3, 1808.-v. 4-5, 1809.-v. 6, 1817.

Added t.-p., engr.

Local Notes:

Dates from series tp. except Vol. I; Vols. III & VI tp. dated 1808, 1817. Copy with "Cate Major" in Vol. IV. See article in "Proceedings of American Philosophical Society" Oct. 1953.

Retrospective conversion record: original entry.

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Sabin, 25605