8vo (175 × 110 mm.), pp. [viii], 88; vii, [i], 111, [1]; 24, [4] (adverts). Bound with the two final leaves of adverts for Benjamin Ferriss, stationer. Contemporary sheep, raised bands. Foxed, first and last pages dampstained. Boards warped and splitting. A good copy.
First edition thus. A collection of treatises on the Quakers, each with separate title page and pagination; the first is signed separately, the second and third continuously. “The three treatises are sometimes found in separate issues. When collected, a list of books to be sold by Benjamin Ferriss, in Wilmington, pp. [4], is generally found added.”(Evans). The publication of works defining and defending the Quaker faith, while distancing it from more extreme elements at its fringes, was central to seventeenth-century efforts to bring Quakerism into the mainstream of religious life. Penn and Barclay both played pivotal roles, publishing numerous important works, in addition to their notable diplomatic efforts. Barclay’s The Anarchy of the Ranters was first published in 1676, Penn’s Brief Account followed in 1694 and Pike’s Epistle appeared in 1726. All three titles were republished a number of times over the following century, including an edition of Barclay's The Anarchy of the Ranters with Pike’s Epistle, published in Philadelphia by B. Franklin and D. Hall in 1757.
Evans, 11661. Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2598.
£300.00
(equal to approx. US$475.04* or €371.01* for 22 May 2012)
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