•  ESTC T65811. Recent wrappers. Pages age-toned, with a few small spots.

Binding: Half red morocco over marbled paper; spine amply gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled.

Provenance: Armorial bookplate of B.M. Fox-Watkins on front pastedown.

•  On Fry, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XX, 294–96. Binding as above. Some rubbing to joints and edges of covers. Some moderate to light foxing, including on plates.

Provenance: Vol. I title-page with inscription dated 1790, reading “Joseph Russells cost 10s a Vollume [sic]”; vol. IV inscribed by John Humphreys in 1794 and with small bookplate of Richard McIlvain.

•  ESTC T102429. Contemporary treed calf, spines with gilt-stamped leather title labels; board edges worn with leather cracking over spines, front cover and free endpaper of vol. IV detached. Bookplates of a now-defunct institution on front pastedowns. Some instances of offsetting and foxing, generally no more than moderate, with pages otherwise clean.

•  Goldsmiths’-Kress 31484; NSTC 2G25716; Sabin 29312. Publisher’s moiré cloth, spine with cloth label; spine sunned and chipped at extremities, with lettering on spine label now lost; cloth cracked at front joint with front inside hinge tender. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate. Intermittent pencilled underlining and marks of emphasis.

•  Shoemaker 17802. Removed from a nonce volume with evidence of old sewing holes. No wrappers; six-digit number stamped on title-page. Respined with archival tissue. Dusty; short tear in outer margin of most leaves.

•  Wegelin 996; Shaw & Shoemaker 669; Sabin 32786; Richmond 2274. Period-style quarter tan cloth with light blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Title-page and several others rubber-stamped by a now-defunct institution. An uncommon book, with many interesting points, including some charming little head- and tailpieces.

•  Publisher's charcoal colored cloth, title in gilt on front cover; lower inch of front joint with cloth split though cover quite firm. Some light waterstaining to lower margins of early leaves and some other spotting/staining/foxing.  (21628)

Elizabeth Webb, "an acknowledged minister among the people called Quakers," first encountered Prince George of Denmark's chaplain Boehm while on a visit to Great Britain; the missive with which she opened her subsequent correspondence with him, here, greatly inspired him and a number of his friends.

Provenance: With inscription reading "Miss Hannah Amelia Moore / Book a Present from her worthy / Friend Ruth Patton / 1789."

•  Law: ESTC W32233; Evans 16817; Hildeburn 3987. Webb: ESTC W13440; Evans 18295; Hildeburn 4409. Benezet: ESTC W6416; Evans 18355. Contemporary quarter sheep over paper-covered sides, the whole worn and abraded but the little volume quite sound. Light age-toning, occasional darker spots. Small chip in bottom margin of title-page; one leaf with paper flaw in lower corner, resulting in the loss of a very few letters.

The present copy does not include the thirty pages, mentioned in the subtitle, on the nature of war; the Extract and Some Thoughts were issued as the first and second titles in a collection of religious tracts printed by Henry Miller, and also issued separately (Evans 10352 and 10505). Sabin calls for 48 pages, as found in this copy.

•  Evans 10352; Sabin 39325. On Law, see: Dictionary of National Biography, XXXII, 236–40. Later neat plain cloth binding, spine with gilt-stamped morocco title label; clean. Half-title lacking. Some foxing, mostly marginal. Pencilled notes to top of title-page and final page; early inked ownership inscription to title-page verso, including Philadelphia street address.

•  Shoemaker 5812. Removed from a nonce volume, stapled, and respined with archival tissue.

The title of this second edition (first edition, 1662) is within a simple border of type ornaments, and the text has two typographical headpieces and a xylographic tailpiece.

•   ESTC T93652; Smith, Bibliotheca Anti-Quakeriana, 311–12. On Muggleton and the Muggletonians, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XXXIX, 264–67; and Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 948. On Penington, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XLIV, 297–300. Recent marbled paper over light boards; front cover with a paper label lettered in black. Spotting, staining, and occasional tears in the margins (repaired with tissue paper) with no loss of text. Pencilled marginalia.

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Though Nares is quite capable of picking nits with a level of scrupulousness to match that of the most pedantic of scholars, he is also prone to flights of fancy such as pondering—after noting that a married woman’s moveable goods are unquestionably the property of her husband— “whether the female tongue is to be reckoned among the moveables . . . I believe it is pretty generally held to continue ‘in potestate Mulieris,’ even after marriage, and I know nothing to prevent it” (p. 148). This is followed up with references to Ovid, the Wife of Bath, and the much-storied Flitch of Bacon!

•  Contemporary half calf with marbled paper sides, spines with gilt-stamped helm decorations and gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels (the volume labels recently supplied, in sympathetic style). Board edges showing light to moderate wear, with leather cracking at joints and crackled over the spines generally. Top edges gilt. Front pastedowns with bookplates now partially torn away; title-page of vol. II with an early inked ownership inscription in the upper margin. Delightful reading, as well as an overall attractive set.

•  Shoemaker 2227. Removed from a nonce volume; six-digit number stamped on title-page.

Despite this strongly worded treatise against persecution (which argues that all men should be able to make a free and open choice of faith and worship), the statutes remained in place for many years to come.

•  Wing (rev.) P1298A; ESTC R12742. Recent marbled paper–covered boards. Title-page with tiny, unobtrusive numeral inked in upper outer corner, first text page with numeral stamped in lower margin (no other markings). Title-page and first text page with moderate foxing, others clean.

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•  ESTC R234420; Wing (rev.) P1362A; Smith, Friends’ books, 2.673.   Modern plain paper–covered boards; back cover and spine a little dust-soiled. Lacking blank leaf at end of preliminaries and pp. 9–16 (the B signature — this opens in medias res, as to Penn's “cruelties”); title-page’s inner and outer margins each with one small repaired tear, not touching text; title-page and last page dust-soiled, with other pages age-toned. Small, small repair to inner margin of last leaf of preliminaries. Still shocking.  (22907)

This report includes a “Plan of an asylum,” the constitution of the Contributors to the Asylum, a list of “Monthly meetings [of the Society of Friends] that have subscribed,” a list of contributors, and a financial report. The second section (pp. 19–76) is a “Description of the Retreat, an institution near York, for insane persons of the Society of Friends,” which is an abridged version of Samuel Tuke's work of the same name, published in 1813. It was Tuke who pioneered “moral treatment” in England and founded the York Retreat, which served as a model for the Friends' Asylum. Here, he expounds on the principles of his treatment, arguing that the “mode of management” of patients has a direct bearing on their recovery.

Illustrated with a frontispiece view of the proposed asylum, drawn and engraved by W. Strickland, Philadelphia.

Provenance:  Signature of previous owner (“Ann P. Paschall”) at top margin of title-page.

•  Austin 525; Shaw & Shoemaker 31538 & 32484.   Removed from a nonce volume; inner edge with two stitch holes, not touching text. Moderate foxing throughout.  (22556)

Provenance: Front free endpaper with early inked ownership inscription by Mary and Rebecca Bude.

•  ESTC W19882; Evans 32810; Sabin 78287; Howes S228. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title label; worn and abraded especially over joints and edges, spine leather cracking. Some leaves dog-eared; spots of foxing to first and last few leaves, with other pages mostly clean.

•  Sewn in publisher’s color-flecked paper wrappers. A crisp, clean copy.