The Epistle from the Yearly-Meeting, held in London, By Adjournments, from the 28th day of the Fifth Month to the 4th day of the sixth month, 1787, inclusive. (Addresses the Issue of Slavery)

(STORRS, Joseph)

Published by [Philadelphia, 1787

About this Item

First American edition. Folio (8.5" x 13.5"). Untrimmed. pp. [1] 2-4. Signed in letterpress: "Joseph Storrs." A docket title is also printed on page four: "The Yearly-Epistle, 1787." Some light toning, three slight old horizontal folds, fine. This *Epistle* addresses current events and the issue of slavery: "We have also thankfully to believe, there is a growing attention in many, not of our religious society, to the subject of negro-slavery; and that the minds of the people are more and more enlarged to consider it as an aggregate of every species of evil, and to see the utter inconsistency of upholding it by the authority of any nation whatever; especially of such as punish, with loss of life, crimes whose magnitude bears scarce any proportion to this complicated inquiry." *ESTC* and *OCLC* together locate a total of only five copies. A beautiful copy. *Evans* 20378; *ESTC* W10609.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Epistle from the Yearly-Meeting, held in London, By Adjournments, from the 28th day of the Fifth Month to the 4th day of the sixth month, 1787, inclusive. (Addresses the Issue of Slavery)
• Publisher: [Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 1787
• Binding: Unbound
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • African-Americana
  • Americana