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Tagspolitics and government (35), Great Britain (32), history (23), United States (21), medicine (19), academic dissertations (16), Church of England (15), France (13), Popish plot - 1678 (12) — see all tags
GroupsBenjamin Franklin's LT Catalog, I See Dead People['s Books]
About me ----------
January 17 (O.S. January 6) 1706 – April 17, 1790
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Printer, author, inventor, musician, political theorist, college president, postmaster, political cartoonist, ambassador, scientist, abolitionist, and bibliophile.
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Benjamin Franklin on Wikipedia
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About my library ----------
My grandson, William Temple Franklin, was entrusted with the bulk of my library upon my death. The library regrettably passed from his hands into those of Robert Morris Jr., who saw fit to scatter it across the lands by way of sale in the early 1800s.
In the 1950s, Edwin Wolf 2nd (1911-1991) discovered the shelf marks I used to catalog my books, and began the laborious task of creating a bibliography of my library. His work was recently completed by Kevin J. Hayes, and published in a joint effort of the American Philosophical Society and the Library Company of Philadelphia. It is entitled The Library of Benjamin Franklin and is available for sale on the APS webpage.
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Catalog Source
We would like to thank Kevin J. Hayes, the American Philosophical Society, and the Library Company of Philadelphia, all of whom have been kind enough to give us permission to use the complete contents of The Library of Benjamin Franklin free of charge, so that we may make Benjamin Franklin's library catalog widely available.
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Wolf, Edwin, and Kevin J. Hayes. The Library of Benjamin Franklin. American Philosophical Society, 2006.
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LocationPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Favorite authorsNone specified
Account typepublic, paid
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Member sinceOct 26, 2007
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