Author: FRANKLIN, Benjamin
Title: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Description: San Francisco, The Limited Editions Club, 1931. Hardcover. Introduction by Edward F. O'Day. Folio. Quarter vellum with brown spine lettering and marbled paper over boards, slipcase with paper spine label. vii, 243pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, page borders. Near fine/very good. Handsome, tight copy of the second title in the LEC's third series, with rear colophon leaf noting 1500 numbered copies (this #642) signed boldly by noted San Francisco printer/designer/binder John Henry Nash. One of the most famed of American autobiographies, composed by Franklin over an extended period (1770s-90) and published in various forms in the years after his death in 1790, although not in the form we recognize today until 1868. NEWMAN 26. .

Keywords: Colonial Americana Biography


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