A Mite into the Treasury

(Franklin Imprint). Hall, David. A Mite into the Treasury...

London Printed: Phila.: Re-printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1758.

1st American ed. X, 53.pp. A very good copy in later leather-backed marbled boards.

First Franklin Edition. :First Published in ocatvo by Luke Hinde, the Quaker printer in London, 1756. The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting instructed their overseers of the press in Nov., 1757, to have an edition of 3000 copes 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.

This David Hall is not to be confused with Franklin's partner.

From Catalog III

A Quaker devotional work first issued by Luke Hinde, the Friends' printer in London, in 1756, and reprinted by a Philadelphia shop whose junior partner shared the author's name. In later leather-backed marbled boards.