Christian advices, issued by the Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Friends' Book-Store, 1859-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1859 first edition For Sale at Friends' Book-Store, 304 Arch St. (Philadelphia) 4 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches tall full leather bound, 130 pp. Apparently original covers quite worn, with rubbing, bumping and edgewear. Cracking and chipping to spine and to both front and rear joints, though they appear to have been glued at some point and all holds quite firmly. Soiling and staining to margins of prelims, contemporaneous owner names to front free-endpaper, including original 1860 owner Anne J. Price, and subsequent nineteenth century owners Susan H. Jones and Stephen Paschall. Some ink offsetting from these owner names, and a bit of marginal staining, to the title page. A few pages with light pencil marginal tick marks. Otherwise, apart from a few instances of minor foxing, clean, bright and unmarked. ~III~ [1.0P] A revision and reissue of the 1808 Quaker 'advices,' a snapshot of the ethos of this faith tradition in the mid-nineteenth century. Among the topics covered: books ('it is earnestly recommended to every member of our religious Society, that they discourage and suppress the reading of plays, romances, novels, or other pernicious books'), burials, civil government, conduct and conversation ('let your words be few and savoury'), days and times, defamation, gaming, love and unity, meetings for worship, moderation and temperance, oaths, parents and children, parties ('such practices we believe are of very hurtful tendency'), plainness, poverty, schools, slavery ('having with sorrow observed that in some parts of our country this shameful practice is still continued'), spirituous liquors, sufferings, trade and war.