FRANKLIN BENJAMIN Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin

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FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life Written by Himself, Together with Essays. ix, 317, [1]; [4], 268 pages. 2 volumes in one. 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners worn; foxing to engraved title page, lacks title page for second volume, minor scattered foxing to text; contemporary ownership inscription on contents leaf. London, [1793]

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Apparently a variant of the first edition issued without the usual date on the title page. Ford describes both the second and third editions as also being issued with and without the date, and this copy collates with the first edition. Ford 437 (variant).