{"id":2535,"date":"2015-01-07T16:36:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T16:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2015-01-07T16:36:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T16:36:43","slug":"january-book-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2015\/01\/07\/january-book-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Franklin&#8217;s autobiography is the January Book of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2015\/01\/ben-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2539 aligncenter\" alt=\"ben 3\" src=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2015\/01\/ben-3.jpg\" width=\"395\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">M\u00e9moires de la vie priv\u00e9e de Benjamin Franklin, \u00e9crits par lui-meme et adress\u00e9s \u00e0 son fils, suivis d&#8217;un pr\u00e9cis historique de sa vie politique, et de plusieurs pi\u00e8ces relatives \u00e0 ce p\u00e8re de la libert\u00e9.\u00a0 <em>Benjamin Franklin. 1791. Paris: Chez Buisson Librarie.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Call number:\u00a0 E 302.6. F7 F7 1791.\u00a0 <\/em><em>The C. Moss McLean Collection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In 1771 Benjamin Franklin began to write his autobiography in the form of letter to his son William Franklin, then Governor of New Jersey.\u00a0 The work had to be put on hold with the commencement of the War of Independence, and was resumed 13 years later.\u00a0 Although a copy of the manuscript was sent to \u200b\u200bM. le Viellard, a friend of Franklin\u2019s from Passy to translate, the autobiography was translated by Dr. Jacques Ghibelline.\u00a0 Shortly after Franklin\u2019s memoirs were published in France, they were translated back into English and then published in London in 1793, and later in the United States in 1794. \u00a0The book is divided into two parts, and according to one book editor, Part II or La Table des Memoires de B. Franklin, published in London in 1790, was not written by Fr<em>anklin but by one of his countrymen.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Binghamton University Libraries\u2019 octavo\u00a0volume is quarter bound in brown leather with brown paper covered boards and leather corners.\u00a0 The spine has faux banding and\u00a0originally ruled in gilt.\u00a0 A leather label with the stamped title once was adhered to the spine.\u00a0 This rare first edition is recognizable by the pagination errors found at the end of Part II: page 203 is followed by 360, 361, 62, and then 363, the last page.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To see the book, visit Special Collections which is located on the second floor of the Glenn G. Bartle Library off of the North Reading Room.\u00a0 During the Winter Intersession, Special Collections\u00a0is open only by appointment, but\u00a0during the\u00a0spring and fall\u00a0semesters, the department is\u00a0open to the public 10 a.m. \u2013 4 p.m. Monday \u2013 Friday.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u00e9moires de la vie priv\u00e9e de Benjamin Franklin, \u00e9crits par lui-meme et adress\u00e9s \u00e0 son fils, suivis d&#8217;un pr\u00e9cis historique de sa vie politique, et de plusieurs pi\u00e8ces relatives \u00e0 ce p\u00e8re de la libert\u00e9.\u00a0 Benjamin Franklin. 1791. Paris: Chez Buisson Librarie.\u00a0 Call number:\u00a0 E 302.6. F7 F7 1791.\u00a0 The C. Moss McLean Collection. 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