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Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1787. Hardcover. Good (heavy wear to boards, leather spine is missing; previous owner's name and inscription on ffep, age toning to pages as expected with age but all text is clear. All pages intact.). Brown leather boards, viii, 439 pp. Includes an alphabetical index.

Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Crukshank, 1787. Leather bound. Fair. Octavo. 439 pages. Brown calf leather binding with leather title label on the spine. Front board is detached. Leather is rubbed and pitted on the covers. Leather chipped head of the spine with a small remnant of black tape at the top. A small piece of black linen tape at the bottom of the spine. All preliminary and end sheets are removed. Title page is torn on the edge with a small amount of missing print. Text starts on the title page and ends on page 439. The last leave is partially glued to the rear paste down. Several pencil names written in the margins throughout the text including American Presidents on the early pages. Name of Richard Hopkins written in old ink on the title page. Other Hopkins family members? names on the rear paste down. Small paper bookplate of Richard K. Betts on the front paste down. Persistent toning to the contents. A fair copy only. Evans 20377; Sabin 14377.

1787 1st ed EARLY Americana Quaker Memorials Philadelphia Pennsylvania Jersey

An important, late 18th-century American account of early American Quakers. 'A Collection of Memorials of Quakers' is an assortment of biographical sketches of dozens of Quakers, memorializing their life and death. Notably, many of the names discussed in this work are women.

Item number: #22271
Price: $599

Society of Friends

A Collection of memorials concerning divers deceased ministers and others of the people called Quakers, in Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, and parts adjacent, from nearly the first settlement thereof to the year 1787: With some of the last expressions and exhortations of many of them.

Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets, MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]. First edition.

Details:
• Collation: Complete with all pages
o viii, 439, [1]
• References: Evans 20377; Sabin 14377
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~8in X 5in… Read More