Experiments and observations on electricity
Subtitle: made at Philadelphia in America
By: by Mr. Benjamin Franklin, and communicated in several letters to Mr. P. Collinson, of London, F.R.S.
Contributors: Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768; Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771, engraver; DeMarsh, Eric E., former owner; Burndy Library
Publisher: Printed and sold by E. Cave, at St. John's Gate
Published: 1751
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Electricity; Early works to 1850
Other titles: Franklin's Electricity; Mr. B. Franklin's Letters on electricity
Notes: First edition.

The leaf of plates is signed: T. Jefferys sculp.

Signatures: [A]²B-M(Lsigned L); vertical chain lines.

Below imprint: (Price 2s. 6d.).

Head- and tail-pieces; initial.

Page 79 misnumbered 76.

Bookseller's advertisements: p. [87]-[88]

Sabin 25505.

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.), 57

SCDIRB copy 39088000092304 has a Soviet reddish-brown postage stamp dated 1956 honoring Franklin affixed to front paste down endpaper.

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library, [in handwritten ink] Gift of Eric E. De Marsh.

SCDIRB copy has a page of handwritten notes [made by DeMarsh?] tipped in at front, apparently based on P.L. Ford's bibliography of Franklin and other sources. A handwritten collational note describing the Library of Congress copy is on the front free endpaper.

SCDIRB copy has a later dark brown half-leather binding with marbled paper boards and endpapers, with gilt-lettered spine and top edge gilt.