Twenty-Seven Reference and Other Books on Benjamin Franklin, including first editions of important bibliographic references: Henry Stevens, Franklin: A Bibliographical Essay on the Stevens Collection of Books and Manuscripts Relating to Dr. Franklin (1881); Paul Leicester Ford, Franklin Bibliography: A List of Books Written by or Relating to Benjamin Franklin (1889); Worthington Chauncey Ford, List of Benjamin Franklin Papers in the Library of Congress (1905); Randolph Greenfield Adams, Franklin Passports: Passports printed by Benjamin Franklin at his Passy Press (1925); first editions on work about Franklin's image and appearance, Albert de Groot, The Franklin Statue, The Record of the Proceedings and Ceremonies Pertaining to the Erection of the Franklin Statue in Printing House-Square (1872); Louis Arthur Holman, Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin: Reproductions of Paintings by Charles B Mills in the Franklin Union, Boston (1916); John Clyde Oswald, Benjamin Franklin in Oil and Bronze (1926; two copies); first editions about Franklin as a printer, John Clyde Oswald, Benjamin Franklin: Printer (1917); Brad Stephens, Pictoral Life of Benjamin Franklin, Printer (1923), William Webb Clary, B. Franklin: Printer and Publisher (1935); a first edition of Carl va Doren's Pulitzer-Prize winning biography Benjamin Franklin (1938), monographs on singular aspects of Franklin's Life, Curious and Facetious Letters of Benjamin Franklin, Hitherto Unpublished (1898); James Madison Stifler, The Religion of Benjamin Franklin (1925); Lewis James Carey, Franklin's Economic Views (1928); Paul Leicester Ford, Who Was the Mother of Franklin's Son? (1932); and eleven others. Provenance The Collection of William Pfaff, New Orleans, Louisiana. (27 Pcs.)

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