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Oxford University Press, 1943, Oxford World's Classics edition,. 1943. Hardcover. hardback, small 8vo, lxx,247pp, page edges browned, text otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, blue cloth, gilt titles, spine rubbed, Good / no dustwrapper .

London: Humphrey Milford : Oxford University Press, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. (1923). A Very Good copy. 12mo., 247 pp., plus 8 pp. ads. Bound in publishers green cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Tips and edges slightly rubbed; gilt on spine darkened. Binding tight, text clean and unmarked. Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford (1877-1952) was an English publisher and editor who from 1913 to 1945 was publisher to the University of Oxford and head of the London operations of Oxford University Press. Part of the publisher's series, "The World's Classics

London, England: Henry Colburn, 1833. New Edition" (Second Issue). Hardcover. Fair. Six volumes, edited by Benjamin Franklin's grandson. Original blue and gray cardboard as issued (owner could then bind as he chose). Bookplates of Frederick J. Edlmann of Hawkwood to each of the six volumes. Volume one shows missing paper to spine, the rest show shelf-rubbing to spine-caps, and a very few short external tears. Internally very clean copy. Fold-out diagrams of scientific apparatus, and a map, in sixth volume. Includes the complete account of Franklin's own Autobiography, the premier American classic. William Temple Franklin inherited the papers, but failed to publish them for so long, he was accused of a cover-up on behalf of powerful British figures. He denies this in the introduction, but seems to have delayed publishing nevertheless until everyone was dead. Some little known treasures of Franklin therein, an example being a dialogue or legal undertaking between Franklin the accused, and Gout, the accuser.