[Franklin Imprint]. An Extract from a Treatise by William Law

(FRANKLIN IMPRINT). LAW, William. An Extract from a Treatise by William Law, , M.A. Called the Spirit of Prayer; or, the Soul Rising out of the Vanity of Time, into the Riches of Eternity.

Phila.: B. Franklin, and D. Hall, 1760.

47pp.

A Quaker religious pamphlet. "Anthony Benezet, the well known Quaker schoolmaster in Philadelphia, assembled the collection during the spring of 1760 in a lot of 500 copies for distribution to those of a religious disposition `in ye back Parts of Maryland, Virginia & N. Carolina . and Connecticut'" (Miller 730).

Gift inscription at the head of title-page: Anth'y Benezet to Joseph White." Anthony Benezet was a Philadelphia abolitionist and educator. White was a Quaker minister in Makefield, Bucks County. With the ownership signature of noted Chicago lawyer Frank J. Loesch.

From Catalog III

Benezet's extract from the English mystic William Law, printed for the Quaker schools. Benezet was the conscience of Quaker Philadelphia, the teacher of free Black children, and the man who converted Rush and, in time, Franklin to the antislavery cause; the collection holds his devotional tracts of the same year, in which the argument against the slave trade first appears from Franklin's press.