MY WRITING.
An edition of Autobiography
(1791)
Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
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Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably the most successful diplomat in American history. David Hume hailed him as the first great philosopher and great man of letters in the New World.
Written initially to guide his son, Franklin's autobiography is a lively, spellbinding account of his unique and eventful life. Stylistically his best work, it has become a classic in world literature, one to inspire and delight readers everywhere.
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Edition Notes
French translation from English.
Pages [204]-[207] misnumbered 360-363.
The first edition of Franklin Autobiography. Translated by Gibelin. The portion written by Franklin is only to the year 1731, and the remainder of his life is a translation from Wilmer's Memoirs of Franklin, with considerable alterations. Cf. Ford.
Signatures: a⁴ A-I⁸ K⁶, ²A-²N⁸.
La science du bonhomme Richard translated by A.F. Quétant. Cf. NUC pre-1956.
"La science du bonhomme Richard": p. 175-196, second sequence.
LC copy has bookplate of Henry Stevens.
Ford, P.L. Franklin bibliography, 383
NUC pre-1956 NF 0339297, NF 0339741
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