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Genre/Form: | Biographies Personal correspondence Bookbinding (Binding) Correspondence Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790. Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin . London : Printed for Henry Colburn, 1818 (OCoLC)656970650 |
Named Person: | Benjamin Franklin; Benjamin Franklin; Benjamin Franklin; Benjamin Franklin |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Benjamin Franklin; William Temple Franklin; Henry Colburn; Charles Pye; John Swaine; Sidney Hall; Henry Stevens, Jr.; Francis Bedford; Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) |
OCLC Number: | 2465648 |
Notes: | Vol. 1: x, 449, lxxxviii p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; v. 2: xxxiii, 449 p., [1] leaf of plates : facsim.; v. 3: xvi, 570 p., [6] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., map. Vol. 2 has additional t.-p., with title and imprint: The private correspondence of Benjamin Franklin ... comprising a series of letters on miscellaneous, literary, and political subjects ; written between the years 1753 and 1790, illustrating the memoirs of his public and private life, and developing the secret history of his political transactions and negociations ... London : Printed for Henry Colburn, 1817. Plate in v. 1 with portrait of Franklin engraved by Chas. Pye; plates in v. 3 engraved by Sidney Hall or John Swaine. Includes index. |
Description: | 3 v. : ill., map ; 28 x 22 cm. |
Contents: | Vol. 1. Life -- v. 2. Private correspondence -- v. 3. Political, philosophical & miscellaneous. |
Responsibility: | written by himself to a late period ; and continued to the time of his death, by his grandson William Temple Franklin ; now first published from the original mss. comprising the private correspondence and public negotiations of Dr. Franklin, and a selection from his political, philosophical, and miscellaneous works. |
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