THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. With an Introduction and Marginal Glosses by Edward F. O'DAY

4to, 243 pages, calf spine, marbled bds., extremities worn Signed by the printer, John Henry Nash. Copy 905 of 1500 numbered copies. A printer's book about a printer. Frontispiece portrait etched by William Wilke. With the Newsletter laid in. "There was no such thing as Franklin's 'autobiography' until well into the nineteenth century. . [Franklin] wrote his autobiography at four different times in his life, and for many years only the first part circulated in print, in a version based on an unauthorized and unrevised copy of his manuscript. That first part went only up to his 25th year ." Included here are Notes by John Bigelow, who was the first editor to collect and publish all four parts of Franklin's Autobiography. "It is our profound conviction . that this book is the finest instance of book making which we have yet sent to our members, that it is the best and most satisfying book production of all the twenty-seven volumes which we have had!" - LEC Monthly Letter #30, Nov., 1931.