Important Subjects for Consideration.

• imprint_number: 1817.056
• title: No. 1. Important subjects for consideration.
• sequence_number: 56
• year: 1817
• place_issued: Alexandria
• issuing_press: Uncertain
• author: -----
• notes: Only known copy held in the special collections of the University of Virginia. Title bears the imprint: "Published for the Prayer Book and Tract Society's [sic] for the Diocese of Virginia."
  Item is the first tract in a series planned by the Common Prayer Book and Tract Society of Virginia, formed at May 1816 convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Virginia, as stated in the caption title; so probably issued in late 1816 or early 1817; the UVA catalogue suggests the 1817 date, as reported here. The series numbering ends with No. 12 in 1820; numbers 2 through 7 are apparently non-extant.
  Imprint states: "All the Society's tracts may be procured at a low price, by application to the Rev. Messrs. Wilmer & Norris, Alexandria," so indicating its origin there. Wilmer was William H. Wilmer (1782-1827), the rector of St. Paul's Church in Alexandria, and later Bishop of the Virginia Diocese; as he regularly engaged Alexandria printers Benjamin L. Bogan, Samuel H. Davis, and Samuel Snowden, this title undoubtedly issued from one of their presses; but without other evidence, a clear attribution is impracticable. At the annual convention of the Virginia diocese in 1817, Wilmer reported that 5500 copies of this tract had been printed.
  
  
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