(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT) Dickinson John By the President

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AN ORDER TO SUPPRESS VICE AND SABBATH-BREAKING (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Dickinson, John. By the President . . . of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a Proclamation. Letterpress broadside, 16 1/2 x 13 inches; uncut, clean and bright within mat lines, minor toning from mat, taped to mat along top edge verso. [Philadelphia]: Francis Bailey, 20 November 1782

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"All persons are hereby fervently exhorted, to observe the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday, and thereon constantly to attend the worship of God. . . . All magistrates, and others whom it may concern, be very vigilant and exact in discovering, prosecuting, and punishing all persons who shall be guilty of . . . blasphemy, profane swearing or cursing, drunkenness, lewdness, or other dissolute or immoral practices." Evans 17664. Provenance: Goodspeed's Bookshop, 1965 (catalogue 528:37 and frame label).