Feb 27, 2007 - Sale 2105

Sale 2105 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
INCORRECTLY ATTRIBUTED TO BENEZET [COOPER, DAVID.] A Mite cast into the Treasury; or Observation on Slave-Keeping. 24 pages. 12mo, self-wrappers, removed from a larger volume; paper evenly toned with some light foxing to the outer leaves. Philadelphia: (Crukshank), 1772

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first edition. Published anonymously, and long attributed to Anthony Benezet by Sabin and Evans and also by Hildeburn in A Century of Printing, 1885-86, v. 2.
"The author . . . is . . . David Cooper, who in a manuscript diary . . . speaks at length about writing it."--Quaker bibliographical notes, by H.J. Cadbury.