Sep 17, 2009 - Sale 2186

Sale 2186 - Lot 103

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
FRANKLIN IMPRINT (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) A Confession of Faith, put Forth by the Elders and Brethren of Many Congregations of Christians. 16mo, contemporary calf, worn, front cover detached; related 1896 newspaper article pasted to front free endpaper, moderate foxing and marginal dampstaining, later paper fragment pasted to L1; numerous early owners' inscriptions on endpapers and title page. Philadelphia: Benjamin Franklin, 1743

Additional Details

"Sixth edition" but first american edition. Bound with, as issued, A Short Treatise of Church-Discipline--the first published book of discipline for the Pennsylvania Baptists. Campbell, Franklin page 79; Evans 5124, 5194; Miller, Franklin 317; Sabin 61497.