{"title":"The Papers Of Benjamin Franklin","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the life and mind of one of history's most fascinating figures. This collection offers unparalleled insight into Benjamin Franklin's world, ideas, and lasting impact on society. Start exploring now.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"papers-of-benjamin-franklin-book-benjamin-franklin-9780300267952","title":"The Papers of Benjamin Franklin","description":"This volume in the venerable Papers of Benjamin Franklin covers March 16 through September 12, 1785, Franklin’s final days as minister to France and his voyage home     This volume covers Franklin’s final months as minister to France and his voyage back to America. He received his long-awaited permission from Congress to return home; accepted the king’s parting gift of a miniature portrait surrounded by diamonds; settled his accounts; and arranged passage for himself and his two grandsons on a ship bound from England to Philadelphia. Franklin instructed the French government on the culinary uses of maize and wrote a lengthy “eye-witness” account of China that includes directions for making tofu. His last public act in France was signing the Prussian-American Treaty of Commerce, which contained three unprecedented articles: the two he wrote in 1782 guaranteeing protections during wartime for noncombatants, and a third guaranteeing humane treatment for prisoners of war.     On the English coast, Franklin met with his Loyalist son William and witnessed William’s signing over his American property to his son William Temple Franklin. Aboard the London Packet, Franklin wrote three scientific papers, including the copiously illustrated “Maritime Observations.” His original line drawings are reproduced here for the first time. The volume ends with an appendix containing supplementary documents from the French mission.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49746402181393,"sku":"NGR9780300267952","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300267959.jpg?v=1772791758"},{"product_id":"papers-of-benjamin-franklin-vol-28-book-benjamin-franklin-9780300046731","title":"The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 28","description":"The twenty-eighth volume of the collected writings and correspondences of the American statesman, ambassador, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52422401294609,"sku":"GOR012348380","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780300046731.jpg?v=1759138815"},{"product_id":"papers-of-benjamin-franklin-vol-1-book-benjamin-franklin-9780300006506","title":"The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 1","description":"This is the first volume to come from a great scholarly undertaking, the assembly and editing of Benjamin Franklin's complete writings and correspondence. Sponsored jointly by the American Philosophical Society and Yale University, this new edition of forty volumes will contain everything that Franklin wrote that can be found and, for the first time, in full or abstract, all letters addressed to him, the whole arranged in chronological order. To be published over a period of fifteen years, it will supersede all previous editions, for thousands of letters by Franklin have been located since Smyth's edition fifty years ago.This first volume, for example, contains more than triple the amount of material in the Smyth edition for this period of Franklin's life, from his birth on January 17, 1706 to the end of 1734. This is a period reflecting the young Franklin of Boston and Philadelphia as a man of letters—essayist, journalist, pamphleteer—and as a rising young printer. here are the literary pieces he wrote and printed in the New-England Courant, the American Weekly Mercury, or the Pennsylvania Gazette, or as separately printed pamphlets. Here are the first issues of Poor Richard's Almanack. Here is his famous Epitaph and his ritual for private worship, \"Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion,\" together with legal and business papers connected with his printing business. Also included is a genealogy, the fullest ever compiled, of Franklin's complicated family, with chronology of Franklin's first twenty-nine years. Each volume will have its own index, with a cumulative index at the end. As a large proportion of Franklin's literary production has never been reprinted since it first appeared in the 1720s and 1730s, this volume should add usefully to the available body of early American materials. Especially significant to collectors will be the reproduction in photographic facsimile, for the first time, of the entire twenty-four pages of the \"first impression\" of the first Poor Richard, that for 1733, from the unique copy in the Rosenbach Foundation.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53685229814033,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53685230141713,"sku":"CIN0300006500G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780300006506.jpg?v=1781805625"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/the-papers-of-benjamin-franklin-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}