Memoirs of the Life and Writing of Benjamin Franklin
Large paper, extra-illustrated version of the memoirs of Franklin in 3 volumes.
London, 1818
The first printing of the <em>Autobiography</em> from Franklin's English manuscript, twenty-eight years after his death, in a large-paper set extended with additional portraits and plates by an early owner. The end of the long detour through French, and the beginning of the Franklin the nineteenth century would make its own.
- Date
- London, 1818
- Author / maker
- Franklin, Benjamin; edited by William Temple Franklin
Cite this object as
“Memoirs of the Life and Writing of Benjamin Franklin.” The Soiferman Collection, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. EIS LIBRIS, https://eislibris.com/objects/memoirs-of-the-life-and-writing-of-benjamin-franklin (accessed [date]).
