POLITICAL, MISCELLANEOUS, AND PHILOSOPHICAL PIECES; Arranged under the following Heads, and Distinguished by Initial Letters in each Leaf: (G.P.) General politics: (A.B.T.) American politics before the troubles: (A.D.T.) American politics during the troubles: (P.P.) Provincial or colony politics: and (M.P.) Miscellaneous and philosophical pieces... Now First Collected, with Explanatory Plates, Notes, and an Index to the Whole

London: Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church Yard, 1779. First octavo edition, printed in the same year as the quarto edition. Lacking boards, spine split in half lengthwise, and heavily chipped. 21 cm. xi, [1], 567, [7] pp. Four plates (two folding). Lacking engraved portrait, as in the Jefferson copy [Sowerby 3053]; old tidelines through the first 35 pp., some other scattered browning and spotting to lower page margins. Sabin 25565 ESTC T56601 (8vo). Sowerby 3053: "This is the only edition of Franklin's writings, other than his scientific pieces, published during his lifetime and with his consent. The editor was his friend Benjamin Vaughan.... The addenda and corrigenda were prepared by Franklin himself. (Inventory #: 69800)