The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin)

No book-club issue applies to the 1791 Buisson printing. The recurring hazards are 'first thus' traps rather than club editions: the 1793 Parsons London and 1794 American editions are sometimes offered as the 'first edition of the Autobiography' when they are retranslations; the Bigelow 1868 is correctly the first complete and authentic English text but is not the first edition of the work; and the 1818 Temple Franklin is neither. Modern facsimiles and print-on-demand copies of the 1791 show machine-made paper, photographic type and a modern imprint.