Life and Religious Labours of Sarah Grubb – Pages Missing – Antique business card by Lindley Murray - 1795

Cambridge University Press, 2012-08-02. 1. Paperback. Good.

Leather Bound. Fair. Though it has a few subtle X library marks and the frontboard is detached, still a first edition Dublin 1792 in original tree calf leather for leather. Some foxing intoning faded red original leather spine titling present , scuffed. Signature at upper right of title page of Thomas Fisher Junior I believe he is of York County Pennsylvania

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Some Account of the Life and Religious Labours of Sarah Grubb.

Paperback / softback. New.

Cambridge University Press. paperback. New. 5x1x8. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London : Printed and sold by James Phillips, George Yard, Lombard Street, 1794 .. A very good early full calf binding. 8vo. 8.5" x 5.5" x 1.25". [6ppp.]/pp.438. Plain calf covered boards. Edges rubbed and bumped. Re-backed in brown calf with gilt banding and green morocco title label: "Life Of S. Grubb". Light toning to edges of endpapers, otherwise clean English text throughout. A very good copy of this excellent biography. ** Referenced by: ESTC T115356 / Smith, J. Friends' books, 1.877. *** "Sarah Tuke Grubb (20 June 1756 � 8 December 1790), Quaker minister, writer and founder of a girl's school in Ireland. Born to businessman William Tuke and his first wife Elizabeth Hoyland, Grubb was about 9 when her father married his second wife, Esther Maud. They were strong believers in Quaker principles. Her father founded three Quaker schools: Ackworth School, Bootham School, and Trinity Lane Quaker Girls' School during his life. Grubb started preaching in Quaker congregations when she was 22. She… Read More

Dublin: R. Jackson, 1792 . First edition. Leather. Very Good. 8" by 5". None. The scarce first edition of this biographical account of the life of Sarah Tuke Grubb, a Quaker minister, writer and founder of a girls' school in Ireland. The scarce first edition of this work, attributed to the prominent Quaker educator Lindley Murray.Sarah Tuke Grubb started preaching in Quaker congregations at age twenty-two, and after marrying travelled extensively in Europe, as missionaries.Grubb and her husband started a girls' finishing school in Clonmel, Ireland. The school was called the Suir Island School, and later known as the Clonmel School.Grubb died unexpectedly at age thirty-four.ESTC Citation No. T83492. This first edition appeared in two variants with no priority stated. This variant has contents to recto and errata to verso of the leaf following the introduction.With the bookplate of lawyer and book collector David Stather to the front pastedown.A smart copy of this biography of a prominent Irish… Read More

Isaac Collins, 1795. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. First American Edition with contemporary woman's ownership inscription, 'Rhoda Dillingham, 1815 [etc.]' in a fine hand to flyleaf and verso. Preceded by the first Irish edition of 1792. vi, 418 pp. Demi 8vo, contemporary sheep, gilt ruled spine borders, gilt stamped title on red morocco label. Biopredation to rear board and a spot of worming to front cover, tips softened, rear hinge starting, a few small dampstains, typical foxing especially to endsheets, sound and square otherwise [Evans 28776]. 'In the twenty third year of her age, she appeared in the ministry. For this awful service she had been prepared, by the great head of the church, with deep and humbling baptisms of the spirit. But she continued patient and faithful, under this proving dispensation, she experienced divine support, was graciously brought through all, and enabled to stand acceptably for the cause of truth and righteousness on earth.' In addition to her extensive… Read More