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149 The following epitaph on himſelf, was written by him many years previous to his death:

THE BODY of, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And ſtript of its lettering and gilding) Lies here, food for worms; Yet the work itſelf ſhall not be loſt, For it will (as he believed) appear once more, In a new And more beautiful edition, Corrected and amended by The Author.

  from the laſt Will and Teſtament of Dr..

WITH regard to my books, thoſe I had in France, and thoſe I left in Philadelphia, being now aſſembled together here, and a catalogue made of them, it is my intention to diſpoſe of the ſame as follows:

My hiſtory of the Academy of Sciences, in ſixty or ſeventy volumes quarto, I give to the philoſophical ſociety of Philadelphia, of which I have the honour to be preſident. My collection in folio of Les Arts & les Metiers, I give to the American philoſophical ſociety, eſtabliſhed in New England, of which I am a member. My quarto edition of the ſame Arts & Metiers, I give to the library company of Philadelphia. Such and ſo many of my books as I ſhall mark, in the ſaid catalogue, with the name of my grandſon Benjamin Franklin Bache, I do hereby give to him: and ſuch and ſo many of my books, as I ſhall