Benjamin Franklin. THE WORKS OF THE LATE DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN; CONSISTING OF HIS LIFE, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. TOGETHER WITH ESSAYS, HUMOROUS, MORAL, AND LITERARY, CHIEFLY IN THE MANNER OF THE SPECTATOR. 2 vols. bound in one. Philadelphia: Wm. W. Woodward, 1801. Full leather, spine gilt-ruled with gilt-titled red morocco label. Small 12mo; 321, [1blank], [12]pp. With portrait frontispiece, and list of subscribers, ads, and contents at the end. New in this edition is "An Examination, before the British House of Lords, respecting the Stamp-Act."

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Boards slightly bowed with some scuffs, marks on upper board, extremities rubbed, spine with light creasing, and joints rubbed and creased; cracking at hinges with final free endpaper partially detached and lacking front free endpapers; pages toned and foxed, with damp staining, occasional wormhole, stain/grime, and fraying, chipping, or tear; frontispiece through p. 18 re-sewn into text block, title page with writing, long tear, and small corner loss.