The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Now First Collected and Arranged: With Memories of his Early Life (3 Volumes)

Benjamin Franklin

J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster-Row, London, 1806

[Early Benjamin Franklin]  3 volume set. Bound in full calf. Rebacked, with renewed spines. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Frontis portrait of Franklin. 12 illustrated plates.  Volume 1: xiv, [2], 440, [36] pages, [5] leaves of plates (2 folded); volume 2: vi, 468 pages, [9] leaves of plates (7 folded) [plates numbered V-VIII, VIII*, IX-XII]; volume 3: 542, 543*-556*, [543]-552, [4] pages. 

Volume 1 contains a biography of Franklin and papers on electricity. Volume 2 contains other scientific, philosophical and political subjects. Volume 3 is devoted to Franklin's writings on the Revolution.

Contents: Vol. I. Life of Dr. Franklin ; Letters and papers on philosophical subjects: Electricity;  Vol. II. Letters and papers on philosophical subjects ; Papers on subjects of general politics; Vol. III. Papers on American subjects before the revolutionary troubles ; Papers on American subjects during the revolutionary troubles ; Papers, descriptive of America, or relating to that country, written subsequent to the revolution ; Papers on moral subjects and the economy of life ; Appendix: no. I. Containing papers proper for insertion, but omitted in the preceding volumes ; No. II. Containing letters by several eminent persons, illustrative of Dr. Franklin's manners and character.  

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