Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of William Penn
Type
Book
Authors
Category
Biography, Memoir, and Memorials - Quaker
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Publication Year
1949
Publisher
Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, United States
Volume
1
Pages
370
Subject
Biography: Quaker
Abstract
This 1849 3rd edition was issued simul in London, Manchester, New York and Philadephia. Due the lord MacCauley's vicious critique of William Penn issued in 1848 in his 5 volume history of England. This new edition after the 1813 1st English edition was issued with a new foreword in defense of William Penn by John Forster. This new edition includes an engraving of William Penn and the Indians, a fold out map of Pennsylvania and a large fold out of Penn's map of Philadelphia. The Life of William Penn by Thomas Clarkson who was famous for his role in the The abolition of the African Slave Trade, and his seminal two volume work issued in 1808 on the Slave Trade.
Description
Hardcover. Poor condition. Spine broken, but readable.
F152.2 .C62
F152.2 .C62
Number of Copies
1
