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The works of Benjamin Franklin containing several political and historical tracts not included in any former edition and many letters official and private not hitherto published : with notes and a life of the author

Title
  1. The works of Benjamin Franklin [electronic resource] : containing several political and historical tracts not included in any former edition and many letters official and private not hitherto published : with notes and a life of the author / by Jared Sparks.
Author
  1. Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Published by
  1. Boston : Hilliard, Gray and Co., 1836-1840
Format
  1. Web resource
Supplementary content
  1. Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Details

Additional authors
  1. Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866
Description
  1. 10 v. : ill., map; 25 cm.
Uniform title
  1. Works. 1836
Alternative title
  1. Works. 1836
Subject
  1. Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790. - [Browse in index]
  2. Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Correspondence. - [Browse in index]
  3. Statesmen -- United States -- Biography. - [Browse in index]
  4. Statesmen -- United States -- Correspondence. - [Browse in index]
  5. United States -- Foreign relations -- 1775-1783. - [Browse in index]
  6. United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775. - [Browse in index]
  7. United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783. - [Browse in index]
  8. United States -- Politics and government -- 1789-1809. - [Browse in index]
Contents
  1. v. 1. Life of Franklin. Autobiography. Continuation / Jared Sparks. Appendix -- V. 2. Essays on religious and moral subjects and the economy of life. Bagatelles. Essays on general politics, commerce and political economy. Supplement -- V. 3-4. Essays and tracts, historical and political, before the American Revolution -- V. 5. Political papers, during and after the American Revolution. Letters and papers on electricity. Appendix -- V. 6. Letters and papers on philosophical subjects -- V. 7-10. Correspondence.
Language
  1. English
Note
  1. Vols. 1 and 10 dated 1840; v. 2-3, 1836; v. 4-5, 1837; v. 6-7, 1838; v. 8-9, 1839.
  2. "List of the plates": v. 1, p. [1] lists 22 plates throughout the edition.
  3. Vol. 10 contains indexes.
  4. Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
  5. Sabin no. 25606.
Reproduction (note)
  1. Electronic reproduction.
Local note
  1. Source library's copy slightly imperfect: in v. 1 p. 241-242 and 255-256 are misbound in relationship to each other; in v. 2 p. 542 is misnumbered as 342.
  2. Biography; Colonial Era; Early Republic.
Imprint
  1. Boston : Hilliard, Gray and Co., 1836-1840 (Cambridge [Mass.] : Folsom, Wells and Thurston)
Reproduction
  1. Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2008. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Added author
  1. Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866.
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