Description:
Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1871. First edition thus. Near Fine. First appearance of the 49 page introduction by John Greenleaf Whittier. The journal of an 18th Century Anti-Slavery Quaker. Original green publisher's cloth with beveled edges and gilt decorations, top edge gilt. One only 2000 copies printed. [BAL 21891] [Howes II, W669] Two former owner's signatures, one dated 1871, else a near fine copy of this clasic abolitionist book.
The Journal of John Woolman, Whittier Edition by Woolman, John and John Greenleaf Whittier
by Woolman, John and John Greenleaf Whittier
The Journal of John Woolman, Whittier Edition
by Woolman, John and John Greenleaf Whittier
- Used
- Hardcover
Philadelphia: Friends' Book Store. Good +. John Woolman, The Journal of John Woolman, with introduction by John G. Whittier, Philadelphia, Friends' Book Store, undated [1871]. Red cloth hc with gold lettering on spine, blind-stamped straight borders, 12mo (17 cm), plain endpapers, viii, 316 pp with appendices (testimonies). Good+/no DJ: corners and edges bumped, minor markings in ink and pencil, pages crisp.
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (US)
- Book Condition Used - Good +
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Friends' Book Store
- Place of Publication Philadelphia