Item #55232 From our Yearly-Meeting, Held at Philadelphia, for Pennsylvania and Ne

From our Yearly-Meeting, Held at Philadelphia, for Pennsylvania and Ne

Item #55232

(SOCIETY OF FRIENDS). From Our Yearly-Meeting, Held at Philadelphia, for Pennsylvania and New-Jersey, from the 17th, to the 21st Day of the 7th Month. 1737. To the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings. [Phila.: Printed by Andrew Bradford, 1737]. 1st ed. 3 pp. Folio. Some light chipping to extremites, beginning to separate at fold, loss of one or two words on p. 3, some very old writing on first and fourth leaves by a child, else a very good copy, housed in period-style calf-backed marbled folding case. Evans 4142. A rare early Philadelphia imprint. OCLC locates only the Yale copy. An exhortation signed by John Kinsey, Clerk of the Meeting demanding good behavior from young people: "be not prevailed with to depart from that Plainness of Garb, Language, and Manners, which becomes the Purity of our Doctrine, and the Simplicity and Spirituality of our Worship."

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