[Rarebooks] fs: Works of Benjamin Franklin, 1798

[Back Creek Books]

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[Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)]. THE WORKS OF THE LATE DR. BENJAMIN 
FRANKLIN; CONSISTING OF HIS LIFE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF: TOGETHER WITH ESSAYS 
HUMOROUS, MORAL, AND LITERARY; CHIEFLY IN THE MANNER OF THE SPECTATOR.
New York: John Tiebout, 1798. Full calf, Sixteenmo, 184 + 104, [ii] pages, 
Frontispiece portrait.
      Early edition of Franklin's famous "Autobiography." Two volumes in one 
as originally issued in America, including the famous frontispiece portrait 
of Franklin in his beaver hat as engraved by P. R. Maverick. This copy 
belonged to Sydnor Bailey and bears his name in manuscript ink at top of 
title page and printed at top of Preface. HOWES F323, etc. The binding is 
worn with rubs at extremities, cracks along joints, chipping at head and 
heel of spine, and a 1" x 1.5" piece of leather missing from board surface 
at lower fore corner of upper board. Interior, however, is very nice with 
only light browning to text pages. Sewing remains strong, hinges not 
cracked........ $400

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