Franklin: The Quest for Paper Copies
Aug. 27th, 2005 01:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beamjockeyYou may recall my entry about Ben Franklin's book Experiments and Observations on Electricity. Just checked the reliable abebooks. The book is remarkably scarce. My choices are:
1. The Octavo Press CD-ROM facsimile, about $25;
2. The Octavo Press fancy super-scholarly ultra-facsimile, on three CD-ROMs, for $225;
3. Original copies, starting around $8000.
You'd think someone would have put an inexpensive edition into print, sometime in the past two and a half centuries. Else maybe the book is not as important as I thought.
Guess I'll hit a library. If I like the book enough, maybe I'll buy the CD-ROM...
1. The Octavo Press CD-ROM facsimile, about $25;
2. The Octavo Press fancy super-scholarly ultra-facsimile, on three CD-ROMs, for $225;
3. Original copies, starting around $8000.
You'd think someone would have put an inexpensive edition into print, sometime in the past two and a half centuries. Else maybe the book is not as important as I thought.
Guess I'll hit a library. If I like the book enough, maybe I'll buy the CD-ROM...
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Date: 2005-08-27 06:47 pm (UTC)