![HUME, Sarah (1702-1774). An Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South-Carolina, To ring their Deeds to the Light of Christ, in their own Consciences...In which is inserted Some Account of the Author's Experience in the important business of Religion. Philadelphia: William Bradford [1747].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2010/NYR/2010_NYR_02361_0078_000(hume_sarah_an_exhortation_to_the_inhabitants_of_the_province_of_south-093554).jpg?w=1)
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HUME, Sarah (1702-1774). An Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South-Carolina, To ring their Deeds to the Light of Christ, in their own Consciences...In which is inserted Some Account of the Author's Experience in the important business of Religion. Philadelphia: William Bradford [1747].
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HUME, Sarah (1702-1774). An Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South-Carolina, To ring their Deeds to the Light of Christ, in their own Consciences...In which is inserted Some Account of the Author's Experience in the important business of Religion. Philadelphia: William Bradford [1747].
8o (183 x 108 mm). (Last two leaves separated and with some losses at gutter affecting a few letters, some browning and soiling). Contemporary calf-backed boards (rear cover detached, worn). Provenance: contemporary inscription on title: "A. Hume to Sophia Lane," possibly a relative of the author.
FIRST(?) EDITION. One of two editions of this very popular Quaker tract, published the same year in Philadelphia--one by Bradford and one by Franklin and Hall (see Miller 445). Sophia Hume's lengthy exhortation is dated at end "Charles-Town in South-Carolina, the 30th of the Tenth Month, 1747." Pages 156-158 contain "Divine Love Commemorated," fourteen 4-line stanzas of verse. Evans 5974 (conjectural date of 1747); Evans 6166 (conjectural date of 1748); Hildeburn 1076, Sabin 33780.
8o (183 x 108 mm). (Last two leaves separated and with some losses at gutter affecting a few letters, some browning and soiling). Contemporary calf-backed boards (rear cover detached, worn). Provenance: contemporary inscription on title: "A. Hume to Sophia Lane," possibly a relative of the author.
FIRST(?) EDITION. One of two editions of this very popular Quaker tract, published the same year in Philadelphia--one by Bradford and one by Franklin and Hall (see Miller 445). Sophia Hume's lengthy exhortation is dated at end "Charles-Town in South-Carolina, the 30th of the Tenth Month, 1747." Pages 156-158 contain "Divine Love Commemorated," fourteen 4-line stanzas of verse. Evans 5974 (conjectural date of 1747); Evans 6166 (conjectural date of 1748); Hildeburn 1076, Sabin 33780.