Experiments and observations on electricity : made at Philadelphia in America
1751
Experiments and observations on electricity : made at Philadelphia in America
1751
First edition The leaf of plates is signed: T. Jefferys sculp Signatures: [A]²B-M(Lsigned L); vertical chain lines Below imprint: (Price 2s. 6d.) Head- and tail-pieces; initial Page 79 misnumbered 76 Bookseller's advertisements: p. [87]-[88] Sabin Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.) SCDIRB copy 39088000092304 has a Soviet reddish-brown postage stamp dated 1956 honoring Franklin affixed to front paste down endpaper SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library, [in handwritten ink] Gift of Eric E. De Marsh SCDIRB copy has a page of handwritten notes [made by DeMarsh?] tipped in at front, apparently based on P.L. Ford's bibliography of Franklin and other sources. A handwritten collational note describing the Library of Congress copy is on the front free endpaper SCDIRB copy has a later dark brown half-leather binding with marbled paper boards and endpapers, with gilt-lettered spine and top edge gilt
