B. Franklin (Benjamin Franklin) Edmands

Benjamin Franklin Edmands was an American author, publisher, and educational writer born in 1807 and died in 1874. The record of his work that is easiest to confirm today centers on schoolbooks and juvenile publishing, especially The Boston School Atlas, Embracing a Compendium of Geography, which was issued in Boston in the early 1840s.

Catalog and digitized-library records also connect him with children's publications and Boston-area printing and publishing. While detailed biographical information appears to be scarce, the surviving record suggests a writer closely tied to practical education, producing books meant to inform young readers in a clear, useful way.

Because so little personal material is readily documented online, his profile survives mainly through the books he left behind rather than through a full modern biography. For readers interested in nineteenth-century American school publishing, Edmands stands as one of the many working authors whose instructional books helped shape everyday learning.