Quakerism (18 results)

Condition: Like New. In unused condition, may show some slight shelf wear, but otherwise unread. This title was digitally scanned from a rare, out of print edition, and will have some visual artifacts from that process.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 496 pp., viii. '4' on copyright page. Following the Editors' Preface and the General Introduction, Contents divided into 16 sections, each with Sources and Further Readings: (1) "Introduction to Biblical Ethics"; (2) "Ethics of the Early Christian Church" : Sources: The Didache, The Letter of St. Clement to the Corinthians, The Letter to Diognetus; (3) "Clement of Alexandria" Sources: The Instructor, The Stromata, The Rich Man's Salvation; (4) "St. Augustine" Sources: Of the Morals of the Catholic Church,The City of God; (5) "Ethics of Monasticism" Sources: The Rule of St. Benedict, The Little Flowers of St. Francis; (6) Ethics of Mysticism" Sources: Bernard of Clairvaux: On the Love of God; Meister Eckhart: About Disinterest; Meister Eckhart: Sermons; (7) "Thomas Aquinas and Scholasticism" Sources: The Summa Theologica; (8) "Martin Luther" Sources: The Law, Faith and Prayer; The Large Catechism; (9) "John Calvin" Sources: Institutes of Christian Religion; (10) "Ethics of Puritanism and Quakerism" Sources: Richard Baxter: The Christian Directory; Robert Barclay: An Apology for the True Christian Divinity; (11) "Joseph Butler and Anglican Rationalism" Sources: Sermons; (12) "John Wesley" Sources: Christian Perfection, The Use of Money; (13) "Jonathan Edwards" Sources: The Nature of True Virtue; (14) "Soren Kierkegaard" Sources: The Writings; (15) "Walter Rauschenbusch" Sources: A Theology for the Social Gospel; (16) "Current Trends"; Index, pp. 493-496. Black cloth with still bright gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Light tan dustwrapper not price-clipped (No price; No writing on either front or back panels or on rear cover), with large black letters for title on spine and top third front cover; subtitle across middle front cover; Editor names lettering across lower middle front cover; publisher name lettering across very bottom front cover. Spine age-toned (All lettering still sharp and distinct, eminently readable); Three tiny tears (1/8") on top front and top rear edges (Now backed with archival tape); some mild, very minor rubbing wear on spine edges near middle of spine (no doubt due to book being held there and the dustwrapper not having a surface gloss--just plain, untreated paper); tiny chips at front cover corners and lower left spine corner (Now backed with Archival tape): describes worse than it is, but there in truth you have it: Dustwrapper did its job: NOW in Brodart mylar which graciously forgives transgressions. Tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); No previous owner names; NO remainder marks. Clean text. Solid copy, more than 50 years old: the way to read a Classic Collection of Primary Sources in the History of Christian Ethics.…

Condition: Very Good. 22 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: Kent Archaeological Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 11 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 21 cms. Category: Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 24 pages, 2 illustrations, 2 tables. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: Kent Archaeological Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Softcover. Condition: Good. 27 pages. Original card covers. Stapled as issued. Staples rusty. Covers marked & dusty due to age. Contents clean. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: Booklets & Pamphlets; Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.…

Condition: Very Good. 17 Pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: Edinburgh Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 24 pages. A historical and doctrinal survey of Quakerism, past and present. The article traces the movementâs origins, key figures, and early controversies. It then considers how Quaker beliefs and practices have developed, and how Friends relate to the wider religious world. The tone is explanatory, aiming to clarify both continuity and change within the Society of Friends. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 26 cms. Category: North British Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages). …

Condition: Very Good. 26 Pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: Edinburgh Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. A complete single article, running to approximately 255 lines, removed from a larger issue of varied topics. The picture along with this listing shows just a small portion of the article, not the entire piece. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Category: Chambers' Edinburgh Journal; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hardcover. liv, [55]-672 p.; 23.5 cm. Includes Penn's preface and Margaret Fox's testimony; index, p. [663]-672. Good brown cloth, large chips from spine ends not aff. stamping.

Softcover. 40 p.; 23 cm. Pages [25]-40 reprint a review from London eclectic review, republished in Littell's living age, no. 400) Good, side stitched, in edgeworn and dusty orig. tan wrapper.

Hardcover, 2 vols., 980 pagina's halfleather.

New edition. [2], xiii, [1], 293pp, [3]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-ruled sheep, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints split, some surface loss to spine, corners bumped. Pencil trials and worm tracks to endpapers, scattered foxing. An early English edition, printed in the year after the American first, of a biography of Job Scott (1751-1793), eminent traveling minister in the Religious Society of Friends and a prominent American quietist. Later interpretations of Scott's atypical doctrinal philosophy would contribute to the 1827 Hicksite-Orthodox split, the first schism within Quakerism. ESTC T76782. Size: 12mo.…

Large Mezzotint (approx 400 x 526mm). Some very careful repair work to the blank verso of the print, some minor creasing in places, light rubbing to the surface of the print (which is rather susceptible to making due to the large areas of dark black ink) but otherwise remarkably well preserved.   London: E. Hemskirck pinx / I. Bowles Exc London Sold by J. Bowles at Mercers Hall in Cheapside, Rare. There are two examples of this print in the British Museum but we have not located any other copies. "It is curious that impressions of this engraving are excessively rare in England, and that those which are met with, are, according to our experience, usually poor" (Whitten, Quaker Pictures, see below). The publisher of this engraving, John Bowles (c.1701-1779) was the younger son of Thomas Bowles I, and brother of Thomas Bowles II. This print may well a new impression of a (?Dutch) plate which Bowles acquired, this would explain the slightly worn appearance of the plate in most copies.   A well-preserved impression of a rare and contested print showing a Quaker meeting with a woman ministering to a large assembled group including William Penn and George Fox.   Writing in Quaker Pictures in 1892, Wilfred Whitten noted that Egbert van Heemskercke's original painting on which the present (and a number of other) prints was based, "should be better known, for it may fairly be called the great historic picture of primitive Quakerism." (p.19) Whitten goes on to describe the present engraving of this painting - referred to as the "Bull and Mouth Meeting" (after the famous early Quaker meeting place - and notes that the many figures in the scene are most likely portraits of real Quakers and that much of the attire is correct. Whitten points out the recognisable figures of George Fox, leaning to the left of the main woman, and William Penn and the Duke of York (later James II) who are shown in the lower right-hand corner of the picture. Whitten writes:   "We are well aware that some Friends have difficulty in regarding this picture as anything else than a caricature. We think, however, that the caricature is only slight. The attitudes of the worshippers, the unmistakeable likeness of George Fox, of William Penn, and of the Duke of York, the careful rendering of costume, the chamber itself, and the glimpse of the London chimneys through the diamond-paned window, the broad stream of sunlight that is pouring upon the worshippers (showing that the artist sought beauty in his subject) - these circumstances and the whole spirit of the work, are we think, persuasive evidence that we have a serious representation of a dramatic scene in the history of the first Quakers" (p.20-1)   Harry Mount, more recently, in his essay, "Egbert van Heemskerck's Quaker Meetings Revisited" (Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes , 1993, Vol. 56 (1993), pp. 209- 228) has slightly cautioned against seeing the image as an accurate representation of real Quakers although concedes that, "Heemskerck's depictions of Quaker meetings seems to have been quite accurate in a number of respects. His portrayal of Quaker dress tallies with the range of garments recorded in contemporary household accounts and recommended in documents issued by Quaker Meetings." (p.227)   Provenance: George Francis Carline (1855-1920), oil and watercolour painter, ink inscription "Geo: F. Carline / Lincoln / 1887" on the blank verso of the sheet. …

First edition of this early anti-Quaker tract, compiling quotations from the tracts of prominent Quakers from George Fox onwards and their supposed heresy. William Penn, Pennsylvania, and the reneged Quaker George Keith are mentioned. The postscript is by Francis Bugg, a member of the Society of Friends who abandoned the sect and wrote against it. ESTC R18109; J. Smith, Bibliotheca anti-Quakeriana, p. 67; Wing B1652. Small quarto (205 x 162 mm), pp. 32. In 20th-century brown paper wrapper. Browned, pagination shaved at head. A good copy.…

First edition of the "classic statement of Quaker principles" (ODNB), a vital codification which helped transform the movement from a loose community to a tightly focussed sect. Before reaching his 28th birthday, Robert Barclay (1648-1690) wrote a series of works that defined Quaker thinking for centuries and shaped the group into a co-ordinated movement which could defend itself against the persecution of the restored Stuart monarchs. This is his most comprehensive and fully developed treatise, an elaborate defence of his earlier Theses theologicae (1674). The Apologia helped to define such essential Quaker doctrines as inward revelation and the universal saving light. Barclay asserted that neither Church nor scripture could claim ultimate authority in spiritual matters, both ultimately subordinated to the internal guidance of the holy spirit. The Apologia proved particularly influential among the French philosophes: Voltaire praised Barclay's writing on toleration, while Jaucourt deemed it "the most rational and the most perfect system yet conceived" (quoted in Phillips, p. 86). ESTC R11963. Edith Phillips, "The Friends as seen by the French", Bulletin of Friends Historical Association, vol. 18, no. 2, 1929. Quarto (213 x 165 mm), pp. [xxiv], 376, [26]. Wood-engraved initial. Early 20th-century brown morocco, spine lettered and panelled in gilt, covers panelled and with turn-ins in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others sprinkled red, white silk bookmarker. Title page mounted on stub. Light rubbing, minor browning and foxing to contents, unobtrusive paper repairs to several leaves: a very good copy.…

calligraphic title-page in red and black ink, 38 photographs of various types laid down all identified by the maiden names of those depicted, accompanied by an equal number of cards and letters bearing messages to the Longmaids, a 2pp. printed poem by Martha B. Baker tipped in, ff. 27, oblong folio, full crimson morocco with border and decorations in gilt, upper board with 'L.C.K. [Ladies College Kendal]' stamped in gilt, some wear at extremities, good. A handsome tribute to William Henry Longmaid and his wife Margaret (née Brown), Quaker schoolteachers who ran the College for ten years before her health took them to Southport and a smaller establishment in 1880. His educational specialism was science, but in later life he established a reputation as an artist. Excepting Miss Mulley, who heads the group, the album is arranged alphabetically (by maiden name): the names Braithwaite, Crosfield, Pecover, Richardson and Sim recur. Amongst the ex-pupils is Rachel Juliet Fox (née Fowler), the first president of the Panacea Society - an organisation founded after the Great War and based on the teachings of Joanna Southcott. …