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[FRANKLIN PRINTING.] HALL, David. A Mite into the Treasury.... Philadelphia: B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1758. 8vo, wrappers (chipped at corners, rebacked). In a gray cloth clamshell box.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Franklin and Hall reprinted this Quaker tract which was originally published in London by Luke Hinde, the Quaker printer, in 1756. Hall--not to be confused with Franklin's partner--chastises his fellow Quakers for slack meeting attendance and urges them to refrain from "Evil-surmising, backbiting, or spreading evil reports of any Brother or Sister behind their backs." The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting instructed their overseers of the press in November 1757 "to have an edition of 3,000 copies struck off. At the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting one year later, Nov., 1758, the overseers reported that 'the small treatise of our Friend David Hall mentioned last year hath been reprinted and distributed, which it is hoped will have some good effect towards exciting Friends to a more diligent attendance of Weekly Meetings'" (Miller). Evans 8146. Miller 683.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Franklin and Hall reprinted this Quaker tract which was originally published in London by Luke Hinde, the Quaker printer, in 1756. Hall--not to be confused with Franklin's partner--chastises his fellow Quakers for slack meeting attendance and urges them to refrain from "Evil-surmising, backbiting, or spreading evil reports of any Brother or Sister behind their backs." The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting instructed their overseers of the press in November 1757 "to have an edition of 3,000 copies struck off. At the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting one year later, Nov., 1758, the overseers reported that 'the small treatise of our Friend David Hall mentioned last year hath been reprinted and distributed, which it is hoped will have some good effect towards exciting Friends to a more diligent attendance of Weekly Meetings'" (Miller). Evans 8146. Miller 683.