This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889* edition. Excerpt: ...ceremony. I immediately prepared a correct edition of the Autobiography for the press, in 1867, when, after an interval of more than seventy years since its author's death, it was for the first time given to the public as it was written. Of course I addressed to Mr. Laboulaye a copy of this volume, of which ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889* edition. Excerpt: ...ceremony. I immediately prepared a correct edition of the Autobiography for the press, in 1867, when, after an interval of more than seventy years since its author's death, it was for the first time given to the public as it was written. Of course I addressed to Mr. Laboulaye a copy of this volume, of which the first part of the following letter was in acknowledgment: G1, at1gny, Versa1lles, 23 Octobre, 1868. Cher Mons1eur B1gelow: Je vous dois mille remerciments et mille excuses pour les Memoires de Franklin. Il y a six mois que, de jour en jour, je me propose de vous ecrire, et le temps passe sans que je fasse rien. Franklin s'excuse quelque part de sa negligence, et dit que l'age rend paresseux, veuillez recevoir avec bonte cette mediocre justification qui ne peut avoir cours que dans la patrie de Franklin. J'ai lu avec grand interet la nouvelle edition des Memoires, et je vous suis fort oblige pour la faveur honorable dont vous me traitez dans la Preface. Votre texte sera le texte definitif, et quoique les changements ne soient pas considerables au fond, ils donnent un autre aspect au livre, car ce sont justement les expressions les plus originales et les plus americaines de Franklin qu'un maladroit correcteur a effacees pour les remplacer par ses platitudes. Voici Voici la revolution arrivee en Espagne mais en France, on se fait une assez triste idee de l'avenir de la peninsule. Personne ne plaint la Reine Isabelle, qui ne merite aucun interet, mais dans sa chute on ne voit que le succes d'une conspiration militaire. Le peuple est reste indifferent jusqu'au lendemain de la victoire, et ne parait pas avoir grand..
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NY n.d. (c. 1888) Privately Printed. Press of G. P. Putnam's Sons. 12mo., 81pp., unusual binding: green cloth over stiff wraps machine-sewn on all edges with bright red thread. Uncut. Near Fine.
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NY n.d. (c. 1888) Privately Printed. Press of G. P. Putnam's Sons. 12mo., 81pp., unusual grey cloth over stiff wraps machine-sewn on all edges with bright red thread. **Signed by Bigelow in presentation to John D Jones. Uncut. VG Plus. Binding secure; text clean.
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12mo. Grey cloth with miniscule gilt front board lettering and largely-perished decorative red edge stitching. 81pp. Very good. Mild edgewear and minor soiling; text block lightly age toned as usual. First edition, likely published 1888, of this lecture delivered before the New York Historical Society on 20 November 1888. Bigelow handsomely inscribes and signs the front flyleaf in rich brown ink: "Wm. E. Church Esqr / From his friend / John Bigelow / 21 Gramercy Park / Septr. 27, 89." "Privately Printed" in a small quantity and fairly uncommon. Bigelow (1817-1911) served as U.S. consul general at Paris (1861-65) and U.S. minister to the court of Napoleon III (1865-66); co-owner and co-editor of the "New York Evening Post" with William Cullen Bryant (1846-61), he was also an accomplished writer and journalist who discovered and edited Benjamin Franklin's "Autobiography" (1868) and authored "The Life of Benjamin Franklin" (1874), "France and the Confederate Navy" (1888), "The Principles of Strategy Illustrated Mainly from American Campaigns" (1891), "Retrospections of an Active Life" (1909-13), "The Campaigns of Chancellorsville" (1910) and "The Peach Orchard, Gettysburg, July 2, 1863" (1910). Laboulaye (1811-83) was a French jurist and abolitionist who came up with the idea of the Statue of Liberty.