1794, ISBN: c7bfeed2caa77d126738b562001ea71c

London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, 1794. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Two volumes in one. Bound in modern full brown Moroccan leather. Gilt lett… Plus…

London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, 1794. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 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. <br><br>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., London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, 1794, 3<

1793, ISBN: c7bfeed2caa77d126738b562001ea71c

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Usato, ottimo stato, [SC: 40.18], [PU: Printed for P. Wogan, P. Byrne, J. Moore, and W. Jones, Dublin], 303pp. Octavo, rebacked. Contemporary calf boards with delicate gilt borders have b… Plus…

Usato, ottimo stato, [SC: 40.18], [PU: Printed for P. Wogan, P. Byrne, J. Moore, and W. Jones, Dublin], 303pp. Octavo, rebacked. Contemporary calf boards with delicate gilt borders have been retained, backstrip of modern black cloth with gilt titles, unusual faux-leather corner treatment that appears normal when the book is closed, complete with gilt-stamped borders, but is revealed to have an unfinished look when the interior is inspected, applied as it is over the endpapers and left untrimmed. Rubbing to rear board and leather and to extremities, plain gilt-ruled dentelles largely effaced; white cloth tape to hinges, text crisp and only lightly foxed, with occasional light wear. Contains the rare frontispiece depicting a younger-than-we-are-accustomed-to Franklin with a full head of short hair. The third edition to appear in English, translated, like the two London editions preceding it, from the French first edition, and preceding the American edition of 1794.<

1793, ISBN: c7bfeed2caa77d126738b562001ea71c

Usato, buono stato, [SC: 16.12], [PU: London: G G J and J Robinson], LITERATURE, BIOGRAPHY, London: G G J and J Robinson, 1793. 2nd Edition . Good/No Jacket. PP: title leaf (with "Vol. I.… Plus…

Usato, buono stato, [SC: 16.12], [PU: London: G G J and J Robinson], LITERATURE, BIOGRAPHY, London: G G J and J Robinson, 1793. 2nd Edition . Good/No Jacket. PP: title leaf (with "Vol. I." under portrait) + (iv) contents + 290pp. Leather bound duodecimo with gilt "I" on spine. Spine bears four bands, and is worn at ends, cracked on edges top and bottom. Staining/browning about edges of many pages. A worm has eaten through title and contents page approx 1", leaving a tear from edge. A later owner has left an inscription on second endpaper dated 1887. Begins with "On Early Marriages" and ends with "Loose thoughts on an Universal Fluid", this is Volume 2, contrary to the two occurrences of "I".<

1802, ISBN: c7bfeed2caa77d126738b562001ea71c

London: London M Jones, 1802. First edition thus. hardcover. Fair. G- HB grey boards 16mo no spine 1802, London M Jones, 1802, 2