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WORKS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CONTAINING SEVERAL POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL TRACTS NOT INCLUDED IN ANY FORMER EDITION, AND MANY LETTERS OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE NOT HITHERTO PUBLISHED; WITH NOTES AND A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. (TEN VOLUMES, COMPLETE); Works of Benjamin Franklin
by Sparks, Jared
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Whittemore, Niles, and Hall, 1856. Later printing. Leather-bound. Very Good. Quarto. 9 in. x 6 1/4 in.). Smooth calf, elaborately ruled, framed and tooled in blind. Beveled boards. Moderate scuffing to boards and rubbing to extremities. Each volume shows two spine labels in contrasting black. One label missing and another partially worn away. Publisher's red stain to all edges. Nonpareil endpapers of orange, white, red, olive and navy. Each volume has half-title and two title pages, the former with a small engraving. Eight of the ten volumes have full-page frontis illustrations -- portraits, a document, some coins. (Volumes VI and IX have none). A generally sound, clean set, quite tightly bound, and eminently useable!
This work and the Life of Washington were Sparks' most valuable contributions.
This work and the Life of Washington were Sparks' most valuable contributions.
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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 79861
- Title
- WORKS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CONTAINING SEVERAL POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL TRACTS NOT INCLUDED IN ANY FORMER EDITION, AND MANY LETTERS OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE NOT HITHERTO PUBLISHED; WITH NOTES AND A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. (TEN VOLUMES, COMPLETE); Works of Benjamin Franklin
- Author
- Sparks, Jared
- Format/Binding
- Leather-bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Whittemore, Niles, and Hall
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1856
- Keywords
- U.S. History; Founding Fathers; Ben Franklin;
- Bookseller catalogs
- AMERICANA;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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Returns Policy: 30 Day Returns, with prior approval, in same condition as when shipped.
About the Seller
Aardvark Rare Books
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Eugene, Oregon
About Aardvark Rare Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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