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(QUAKERS.). WOOLMAN, JOHN. The Works of John Woolman. Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1774. 1st ed. 8vo. 14,436 pp. Full contemp. calf, very worn, covers loose. Text browned, staining toward back. Fair. Complete, text sound. $375.00

 

Howes W 669: "Includes his famous Journal...An autobiographical masterpiece, rivalled in 18th century America only by that of Franklin." Evans 13782. Sabin 105211. Princeton One Hundred Notable American Books. Includes separate title pages for each part, although after the prefatory material the pagination is continuous. Includes his important anti-slavery work, "Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes." A Quaker minister, Woolman preached anti-slavery from New Hampshire to North Carolina.