Item #000010008 The Beginnings of Quakerism. William C. Braithwaite.

The Beginnings of Quakerism

Cambridge: At the University Press, 1955. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xxviii, 607, [1] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $4.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with three fold-out maps at the end of the volume. First published in 1912. Second edition revised by Henry J. Cadbury. William Braithwaite's scholarly history of the Quakers and their beginnings (to the year 1660). The volume draws a great deal of its information from primary sources, namely, original writings of the first Friends. George Fox, James Naylor, William Dewsbury, and Margaret Fell's stories are all told in this volume on Quaker history, a movement in suport of the desire for religious liberty in England. Very Good / Good+. Item #000010008

A name on the front pastedown and a small dampstain to the bottom textblock; jacket is Good or better with traces of edge wear and a dampstain on the rear panel.

Price: $125.00

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