Author: Gurney, Joseph John
Title: Observations on the Religious Peculiarities of the Society of Friends
Description: London, Arch, 1824. 2nd edtn. orig .boards. 23x14cm, xii,368 pp,, A waterstain to spine. Exterior hinges cracked. Some page-edge stains.. Rubbed. Light binding bumps. Foxed. Good. ¶ Inscribed at head of title in ink in a contemporary hand: "Thomas Shillitoe to his dear friend Pechlin". [ "Shillitoe,Thomas (1754-1836). Quaker; having realised a competence as a shoemaker turned itinerant preacher; visited chief countries of Europe and had interviews with several sovereigns; in America 1826-9; president of British and Foreign Temperance Society, 1833; his "Journal" printed, 1839" - from Concise Dictionary Duictionary of National Biography, Part 1,] ["Pechlin" is probably Baron Friedrich Christian Ferdinand v. Pechlin, (1789-1863), Danish diplomat, (Legation secretary at Frankfurt,1815 ; Assistant to Count Bernstorff in negotiations over Treaty of Vienna,1820 . His career with the Danish Foreign Ministry specializing in German affairs lasted 22 years)].

Keywords: Christian Theology, Shillitoe, Thomas, Pechlin,Baron, Quakerism, Quakers, , , ,