Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America / by Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. and F.R.S. To which are added, letters and papers on philosophical subjects. The whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one volume.

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Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America / by Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. and F.R.S. To which are added, letters and papers on philosophical subjects. The whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one volume. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for David Henry; and sold by Francis Newberry, MDCCLXIX [1769]

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1 unnumbered leaf, iv pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, 496 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, VII plates (some folded) : diagrams ; (4to)

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References note

ESTC T101040
Roscoe, A170 (1)

Notes

Paging irregular: nos. 111-112, 416-417 and 465-472 repeated
Fourth edition, of the Experiments and observations. cf. Advertisement, following t.p.
Copy 2 Note: With signature of James Lind [1736-1812] on t.p.; attached to the verso is a printed copy of Franklin's Epitaph. This is not identical with any of the versions given by L.H. Butterfield (New Colophon, vol. iii, p. 9-39, 1950), though it closley resembles that of Benjamin Vaughan in his edition of Franklin's 'Political, miscellaneous, and philosophical pieces', 1779.

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