Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin : Consisting of His Life Written By Himself : Together with Essays, Humorous, Moral & Literary, Chiefly in the Manner of the Spectator : In Two Volumes.

Octavo. Two volumes in one. Bound in modern full brown Moroccan leather. Gilt lettering on red leather spine label. Gilt tooling on spine and boards. New endpages. Fine binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages with tanning. Foxing to title page. Lacking original endpages. Ships daily. This first English edition of Franklin's Works, published only three years after his death, in 1793, offers rich evidence of the pragmatic brilliance in the words of this Founding Father, who was described as "a great genius" even by his adversary John Adams. Edited and with a preface by Franklin's friend Richard Price, this important first English edition of the Works is "a collection of the 'popular' pieces of Franklin, together with a re-translation of the autobiography" from the 1791 French first edition of the autobiography, which appeared in English later same year in a "wretched re-translation from the Paris edition" Ford 437. Sabin 25600. ESTC T56600. See Ford 383, 386, 423.