Description: Group of (4) books: a) The life of Benjamin Franklin: with many choice anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers, by M. L. Weems, published by Uriah Hunt & Son, Philadelphia, 1845, 239 pages. 18mo, rebound in leather with marbled boards. b) Eccentric Biography; or, Sketches of Remarkable Characters, Ancient and Modern, published by Nathaniel Balch Jr., Boston, 1825, 218 pages. 16mo, leather with marbled boards. c) William Penn: An Historical Biography, by Hepworth Dixon, published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1851, 457 pages. Octavo with leather and marbled boards. d) Beaconsfield, by George Makepeace Towle, published by D. Appleton & Co., NY, 1879, 163 pages. 16mo, leather with marbled boards. Dimensions are: a) 7 1/2 inches long X 4 3/8 inches wide; b) 6 3/8 inches long X 3 3/4 inches wide; c) 8 inches long X 4 7/8 inches wide ; d) 6 1/4 inches long X 4 inches wide. All measurements are approximate.