Library of Benjamin Franklin: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 257)

by Kevin J. Hayes and Edwin Wolf

Beginning in the 1950s, Edwin Wolf 2nd embarked on a biblio'l. quest to reconstruct the library of Benjamin Franklin, which was the largest & best private library in Amer. at the time of his death & was subsequently dispersed. The contents of Franklin's library were virtually unknown until Wolf identified the unique shelfmarks that Franklin used to organize his books. That discovery allowed Wolf to locate 2,700 titles in 1,000 vols. that Franklin...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871692570
• ISBN13: 9780871692573
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 966 Pages