Hooper, William:

A SERMON PREACHED IN TRINITY CHURCH, AT THE FUNERAL OF THOMAS GREENE, ESQ; AUGUST 5, 1763.

Boston: Richard and Samuel Draper, 1763. Quarto. 34pp, as issued. Repairs to blank upper margin of title leaf and blank lower corners of last leaf. Good+ in modern half black cloth and marbled boards, with title stamped in gilt on spine. Ownership signature of James Humphreys, and dated by him 1787.

Greene was Hooper's embodiment of the good merchant: honest, punctual, diligent, and liberal in charitable donations to his church. Hooper's son William, from North Carolina, was a Signer of the Declaration of Independence.
FIRST EDITION. Evans 9405. Item #30458

Price: $300.00