WORKS OF DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and LIterary: With His LIfe, Written by Himself
Published by J & B Williams, Exeter, NH, 1832
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16mo; vi, 8-256 pages, full leather, extra-gilt spine, tips of spine torn; ex libris Elias Scott May 9, 1834. lacks rrear free endpaper, horizontal hole to one leaf with loss of one two words. Preface by "Richard Price". [Checklist American Imprints no. 12468]. Various pages misnumbered. Includes a continuation of Franklin's autobiography by Dr. Henry Stuber, an intimate friend to Dr. Franklin. Among the included essays is "Morals of Chess". "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 ." Stuber's third-person account . was based on that unrevised mss. of only Franklin's first 25 years. Per the Library Company of Philadelphia.
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- WORKS OF DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and LIterary: With His LIfe, Written by Himself
- Author
- FRANKLIN, Benjamin; Henry Stuber
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- J & B Williams, Exeter, NH
- Publication year
- 1832
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- Good
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- Hardcover
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