FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790). Franklin on Electricity.

London: Printed for David Henry; and sold by Frances Newbery, at the corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCLXIX [1769].

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 and illustrated with copper plates.

Includes Preface to the First edition (p. [iii]). Includes errata and advertisement "concerning this fourth edition," p. [p. 18].
[2], iv, [2], 496, [18] p., VII leaves of plates (partly folded); ill. (engravings, woodcuts). Includes index, and errata, and advertisement.

Printed pagination 416 and 417; 465 to 472 repeated.

Bound in leather, gilt borders, raised bands, decorative gilt panels, red leather spine label, gilt spine title, speckled edges.


H: 9 W: 7 in.

With J Hearry…(?) in ink on t.p.

Good, front cover detached edges and corners rubbed, rear spine cracked, some offsetting of plates, half title and rear free endpaper detached.