[QUAKER] Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes, Religious Society of Friends

[QUAKER] Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Members of the Religious Society of Friends. Philadelphia: The Tract Association of Friends, 1870. [12163]

Brown cloth with blind borders, title in gilt to spine, binding clean and very good, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, tight. Public library bookplate with date 1892, scuff marks on the ffep, 427 clean pp. with index; 4 pp. publisher's adverts. Very good. Hardcover.

"J. Fagan & Son, Stereotype Founders, Philadelphia," and "Caxton Press of Sherman & Co., Philadelphia" on the copyright page.

"This work comprises brief biographies of Friends who lived in this country in the last and and early part of the present century, who became conspicuous for their devotion to the cause of Truth. it is interspersed with numerous anecdotes and records of religious experience exemplifying the doctrines and testimonies of the Society of Friends." - publisher.

Biographies of David Ferris, William Hunt, Samuel Emlen, John Churchman, Rebecca Jones, Daniel Offley, William Savery, George Dillwyn, Arthur Howell, William Jackson, Peter Yarnall, Anthony Benezet, Jacob Lindley, Eli Yarnall, Sarah Harrison, John Parker, Nicholas Waln, and Moses Brown.