The complete works of Benjamin Franklin
Subtitle: including his private as well as his official and scientific correspondence, and numerous letters and documents now for the first time printed, with many others not included in any former collection : also the unmutilated and correct version of his autobiography
By: compiled and edited by John Bigelow.
Contributors: Bigelow, John, 1817-1911.; Hall, Henry Bryan, fl. 1850-1900, engraver.; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.; Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 1887
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Correspondence; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1775-1783; United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775; United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783; United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1789
Genres: Correspondence.
Notes: "Of this letter-press edition 600 copies have been printed for sale"--half t.p. verso.
Vol. 1 includes engraved portrait of Franklin by H.B. Hall from the original painting from life by J.A. Duplessis in 1783 as frontispiece and an additional folded leaf of plates.
Replace; LC copy replaced by preservation microfilm
LC copy no. 251 of 600 letter-press edition copies printed.
Ford, P.L.  Franklin bibliography, 600
NUC pre-1956 NF 0338904
Table of contents: title: Vol. 1. 1706-1744; title: v. 2. 1744-1757; title: v. 3. 1758-1766; title: v. 4. 1767-1772; title: v. 5. 1772-1775; title: v. 6. 1776-1779; title: v. 7. 1780-1782; title: v. 8. 1782-1784; title: v. 9. 1784-1788; title: v. 1788-1790. Supplement. General index.