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Excerpt from Catalogue of Works Relating to Benjamin Franklin in the Boston Public Library: Including the Collection Given by Doctor Samuel Abbott Green, With the Titles of Similar Works Not in the Library In the Annual Report of the Public Library for the year 1869 the Superintendent says It has been thought that Franklin is to Boston of something like the same importance [as that of Shakespeare to England], and I have lost no opportunity of securing what I could, illustrative of the man and his works, and hope the collection may prove in the end of credit to the city of his birth. Since that time it has been one of the objects of the Library to secure anything of interest in this direction, in order to make as complete a collection as possible of Franklin literature. The growth of the collection, however, had not been considerable, until two years ago, when Doctor Samuel A. Green presented to the Library his Franklin books, pamphlets, engravings, portraits, etc. To these have been added similar books from the general collection, and the whole have been placed on shelves set apart for them. As stated in the Annual Report for 1880, Dr. Green's donation has led to some important additions from other sources, among them some interesting gifts from William S. Appleton, Esquire. Lists of the titles of this collection have been published in the several Bulletins of the Public Library for 1882 and 1883, and are now, with some additions and changes of arrangement, reprinted in the present form. Part I. Contains the titles of books, or parts of books, written by Franklin. The titles of such of these books as are in the Public Library are designated by shelf-numbers; other titles have been taken from sale catalogues and other sources, and may not always be exact. Any information in respect to them or to additional titles will be gladly received. The arrange ment is alphabetical; but in the case of a work having many editions, as the Lg'fc; or Way to wealth the various editions are-placed chronologically. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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