The History of the Rise, Increase and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers. Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrences

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In fair condition. Boards are moderately worn with cuffing, dryness, edge wear and surface staining. Spines are dry with creasing down center. Tail extreme on volume one has binding exposed. Corners bumped, dry and somewhat crushed. Boards are cocked slightly from previous humidity or water exposure. Interiors are moderately soiled with darkened leaves, sporadically chipped fore edges and light staining. Volume one is missing its rear flyleaf. Small circular repair on rear board of volume one. Volume two has old hand previous owner s inscription from London Grove, Penn of the Barnard family. Front fly leaf in volume two is missing. Soiling and dampness staining throughout volume two. Bindings remain intact. Please see photos. Willem Sewel (1654-1720) was a Dutch Quaker historian, of English background. Sewel spent 25 years on his major work, The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People called Quakers. It was first published in Dutch, as Histori van de Opkompste, Aanwas en Voortgang der Christenen bekend by den naam van Quakers, Amsterdam, 1717 (another edition, 1742). The English edition (London, 1722), dedicated to George I, was largely undertaken to correct Historia Quakeriana (Amsterdam, 1695; English translation, London, 1696, by Gerard Croese, to whom Sewel had given letters and narratives from England). Sewel's own work was based on a mass of correspondence, George Fox s Journal, and, for the public history, Lord Clarendon s Rebellion and Edmund Ludlow s Memoirs. It became an authority. N° de ref. del artículo COLR1823ABEK

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