Author: Clarke, George; editor:
Title: John Bellers : His Life, Times and Writings
Description: London / New York, Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1987). orig.boards. 24x16cm, vii, 293 pp. Minor rubbing. A rubberstamp to bottom page-edge. VG. dustwrapp ¶ Writings of the Quaker social reformer & economic writer [1654-1725] who influenced Robert Owen & Karl Marx. Contents: Proposals for Raising a Colledge of industry ; To the Children of Light; The Lords & Commons in Parliament Assembled; An Epistle to Friends Concerning the Education of Children; Essays About the Poor, Manufacturers, Trade, Plantations & Immorality; A Caution Against all Perturbations, etc.; Watch unto Prayer; To the Lords & Others Commissioners, Appointed by the Queen to Take Care of the Poor Palatines; Some Reasons for an European State; To the Archbishop, Bishops & Clergy of the Province of Canterbury, etc; An Essay Towards the Ease of Election of Members of Parliament; Some Considerations as an Essay Towards Reconciling the Old & New Ministry; Considerations on the Schism Bill; An Essay Towards the Improvement of Physick; An Epistle to the Quarterly Meeting of London & Middlesex; An Essay for Imploying the Poor to Profit; To the Yearly, Quarterly & Monthly Meetings of Great Britain & Elsewhere; An Abstract of George Fox's Advice & Warning to the Magistrates of London, in the Year 1657 Concerning the Poor; An Epistle to Friends of the Yearly, Quarterly & Monthly Meetings, Concerning the Prisoners, & Sick, in the Prisons, & Hospitals of Great Britain; To the Criminals in Prison.

Keywords: British Social History, John Bellers, Society of Friends, Quaker Quakers, Sociology Economic, Poor Poverty, Great Britain, Economy Economics, Political Politics