The private correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D., F.R.S. &c., minister plenipotentiary from the United States of America at the court of France, and for the treaty of peace and independence with Great Britain, &c. &c. : comprising a series of letters on miscellaneous, literary, and political subjects, written between the years 1753 and 1790, illustrating the memoirs of his public and private life, and developing the secret history of his political transactions and negociations / now first published from the originals, by his grandson William Temple Franklin.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Marilee E. Thomas and Robert C. Thomas Science and Related Subjects Collection.
Main Author: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (Author)
Other Authors: Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823
Hall, Sidney (Engraver)
Colburn, Henry, -1855 (Publisher)
Language:English
Published: London : Printed for Henry Colburn, British and Foreign Public Library, Conduit Street, Hanover Square, 1817.
Series:Marilee E. Thomas and Robert C. Thomas Science and Related Subjects Collection.
Subjects:
Franklin, Benjamin, > 1706-1790.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Armorial bookplates.
Armorial bookplates > England > 19th century.
Genre:
Armorial bookplates.
Armorial bookplates
Ownership and Custodial History:
Armorial bookplate, with motto "Virtute", on front paste-down: "Laurence Jopson Marshall"; folded paper slip with notes on this work in pencil (in a 20th-century hand?) found in item and now available in MS 466 box 1 folder 259.
Local Note:
MSU: The material is stored offsite in Remote Storage. Please contact Special Collections 3 working days in advance if you wish to use it.
MSU: Gift of Marilee E. Thomas and Robert C. Thomas.
MSU: Lacking first leaf (blank?).
Binding Information:
In contemporary or near-contemporary half calf with marbled paper over paste-boards; boards tooled in gilt; spine tooled and stamped in gilt and blind; gilt lettering to spine; marbled edges.
Physical Description:5 unnumbered pages, vi-xxiii, 1 unnumbered page, 449 pages, 1 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : facsimile ; 28 cm
Format: Book

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