New England Judged … Containing a Brief Relation of the Sufferings of the People call'd Quakers in New England, from the Time of their first Arrival there in the Year 1656 to the Year 1660. Wherein Their Merciless Whippings, Chainings, Finings, Imprisonments, Starvings, Burning in the Hand.Inflicted Upon the Bodies of Innocent Men and Women, Only for Conscience-Sake, Are Briefly Described.
London: Printed and sold by T. Sowle, 1702-3. 2 parts in 1 volume, 8vo (190 x 120 mm). Publisher’s ads. Contemporary calf, covers double-ruled in gilt, spine with 5 raised bands ruled by gilt, remnants of early paper spine label. Condition: offset to endpapers, front blank detached, light toning, marginal tears to 3 leaves; joints cracked but cords strong, wear to extremities. Provenance: James Calder (1782 signature to front free endpaper and title; Francis J. Hathaway (1828 signature to front free endpaper; early manuscript paper laber to rear pastedown reading "George Bishop/History." the first collected edition of this important account of the persecution of american quakers , also the first edition to include appendix by Whiting. Howes B481; Sabin 5631.
New England Judged … Containing a Brief Relation of the Sufferings of the People call'd Quakers in New England, from the Time of their first Arrival there in the Year 1656 to the Year 1660. Wherein Their Merciless Whippings, Chainings, Finings, Imprisonments, Starvings, Burning in the Hand.Inflicted Upon the Bodies of Innocent Men and Women, Only for Conscience-Sake, Are Briefly Described.
London: Printed and sold by T. Sowle, 1702-3. 2 parts in 1 volume, 8vo (190 x 120 mm). Publisher’s ads. Contemporary calf, covers double-ruled in gilt, spine with 5 raised bands ruled by gilt, remnants of early paper spine label. Condition: offset to endpapers, front blank detached, light toning, marginal tears to 3 leaves; joints cracked but cords strong, wear to extremities. Provenance: James Calder (1782 signature to front free endpaper and title; Francis J. Hathaway (1828 signature to front free endpaper; early manuscript paper laber to rear pastedown reading "George Bishop/History." the first collected edition of this important account of the persecution of american quakers , also the first edition to include appendix by Whiting. Howes B481; Sabin 5631.
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