(QUAKERS) The Book of Discipline Agreed on by the Yearly Mee

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(QUAKERS.) The Book of Discipline, Agreed on by the Yearly-Meeting of Friends for New England. xii, 155 pages plus 4 blank flyleaves. 4to, contemporary calf, stained and somewhat warped, moderate wear; intermittent dampstaining mostly limited to margins, a bit of worming on fore-edge near end; manuscript notes. Providence, RI: John Carter, 1785

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First edition of the first compiled guidance for New England Quakers, summarized from epistles dating back to the 17th century, and organized alphabetically by subject. Includes sections on raising children; conduct and conversation; the distinct Quaker conventions for the months and days of the week; gravestones (or lack thereof); plainness; and war. Two pages on "Negroes and Slaves" forbid slave ownership or direct involvement in the slave trade (101-102). Manuscript notes to three sections update those entries through epistles issued in 1793. Alden, Rhode Island 1009; Evans 19014; Sabin 52613. None traced at auction since 1947.