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Franklin: The Quest for Paper Copies
You 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...