EIS LIBRIS

Publications

Narrative history first. Every book here is built on the objects and written to be read.

  • The Catalogs of the Soiferman Collection

    Three narrative volumes · published on this site; print editions in preparation

    Catalog I, The 1793 Yellow Fever; Catalog II, Benjamin Rush & Benjamin Franklin; Catalog III, Franklin's Philadelphia. Each chapter can be printed as catalog pages.

  • The Physick of the Soul

    Literary biography of Benjamin Rush · manuscript

    Rush's life in the form of a series of sessions, in which the physician who wrote the first American book on diseases of the mind is made to sit for his own examination.

  • The Printing-House and Its World

    Franklin's press as a business · in progress

    Paper, type, credit, partners, and job-work: the economy of the New Printing-Office and the network of suppliers and customers that ran through it, from Anthony Newhouse's mill to the Pennsylvania Hospital's notes.

  • The Bleeding and the Cure: A Confession

    Historical novel · completed

    A confessional novel in Rush's own voice, with a full apparatus of endnotes, written from the sources in the collection.