FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital; From its first Rise, to the Beginning of the Fifth Month, called May, 1754 [and] Continuation of the Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital; From the First of May 1754, to the Fifth of May 1761, both Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, 1754 & 1761, 2 vols., small 4to, uniform contemporary plain gray wrappers, spine of first title lacking and final gathering E and lower cover detached, spine of second title worn, stitching loose, in two uniform half-morocco folding cases, FIRST EDITIONS, the first one of 1500 copies, the second one of 500. Howes F331; Evans 7197; Sabin 25588; Guerra a272 & a324; Streeter sale 956 (this set); Miller 587 & 764: "Both [the] Account written by Franklin and the Continuation written by a committee of trustees chaired by Samuel Rhoads were designed to help raise additional moneys for the Pennsylvania Hospital...[which] first opened to patients Feb. 10, 1752. [It was the first hospital of the sort to be established in the English colonies.] Franklin was a prime force in founding the institution, its first secretary, and later chairman of its trustees...[The Continuation] was designed in signatures, pagination and paper size to serve as [the Account's] sequel and be bound with it." (2)