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17473210<p>Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Copyright date 1747. 768 pgs plus Index. Rebound. Folio. Recent full calf with remnants of original paneled. New endpapers. Title page soiled with some small holes in margins not affecting text. Upper corner of last 20 pages or so chewed not affecting text but affecting some page numbers. Contemporary ownership inscription to title page. Some staining to contents and some marginal folds and tears but overall a very good copy. Thomas Story 1670-1742 was an English Quaker convert and friend of William Penn whose writings were very influential to Quakers. In 1698 he visited colonial America lectured to Quakers there and held positions in the Pennsylvania colony. Additional postage may be required.</p> Isaac Thompson and Company hardcover
174735941Newcastle Upon Tyne: Printed by Isaac Thompson and Company at the New Printing-office on the Side 1747. First Edition. Leather bound. Fair. Folio. 3 iv 768 pages 8 page index 1. Full brown calf leather binding. Spine has 6 raised bands and gilt lettered title on red leather label. Light decorative blind stamped borders on boards. Leather is cracked upper and lower front joints. and chipped bottom of the spine. Edge wear to the boards. Right front flyleaf partly loose. Light toning and scattered foxing and brown spots to the contents. Faint name on the right front flyleaf. <br /> <br /> Old ink name of Robert G. Livingston top of title page. Possibly the same as Robert Gilbert Livingston a British Loyalist officer during the American Revolution Another old ink name on rear blank end sheet dated 1819. The author Thomas Story was a Pennsylvanian Quaker who traveled through various parts of the country and recorded his observations. <br /> <br /> Howes S 1048; Sabin 92324. Printed by Isaac Thompson and Company, at the New Printing-office on the Side unknown
1747231201Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by Isaac Thompson and Company 1747. First edition. 4 iv 768 8 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Contemporary paneled calf. Boards detached spine label chipped internally Fine. Bookplate of Henry Cabot Lodge. First edition. 4 iv 768 8 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Sabin 92324 Printed by Isaac Thompson and Company unknown
17474675Newcastle upon Tyne Printed by Isaac Thompson and Company 1747. 1747 Folio. 4 iv 768 8 p. New half calf with marbled boards. Spine with six raised bands and a contrasting label. Original board papers preserved with book label and ownership inscriptions of the Bradford Meeting. Title page laid down with three letters in old pen facsimile and loss to one word of the imprint. Neat repairs to a few blank margins of first and final leaves. Now a good sound copy. This is the first issue with the Advertisement by Story's executors on p2. ESTC T139493. Sabin 92324. Story spent 16 years in New England and Pennsylvania and chronicled his travela and meetings in some detail. Newcastle upon Tyne, Printed by Isaac Thompson and Company, hardcover
1747elala1897Newcastle Upon Tyne: Printed by Isaac Thompson 1747. 1747. folio. pp. 1 p.l. iv 768 8index. lacking 1 preliminary leaf printers advert. modern half tree calf edges worn inner margin of title renewed some foxing to outer leaves. armorial bookplate of Joseph Bevan Braithwaite. First Edition. A prominent Quaker Story visited America at the request of William Penn in 1698 and stayed for sixteen years. A large portion of his journal pp. 147-463 is devoted to his stay in Pennsylvania and travels to other parts of America and the West Indies. Howes S-1048. Sabin 92324. Smith II p. 638. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Printed by Isaac Thompson, 1747. Paperback
179838709Salem: Thomas C. Cushing 1798. 43pp lacking the half title. Scattered light foxing disbound with some loosening. Good. <br /> <br /> This pamphlet "also contains Manassah Cutler's charge to the good doctor about to become Ohio's pioneer preacher" Eberstadt and "the Proceedings of the Council called to ordain Dr. Story" Thompson. Indian Mounds are described in detail and their purpose discussed. "Pages 34-36 are principally devoted to the Antiquities of Marietta" Evans. <br /> Daniel Story 1756-1804 uncle of Justice Joseph Story and brother of the author was "the earliest Protestant preacher of the gospel in the territory northwest of the Ohio except the Moravian missionaries was a native of Boston and graduated at Dartmouth in 1780. The directors and agents of the Ohio Company having passed a resolution in 1788 for the support of the gospel and the teaching of youth Rev. Manassah Cutler one of the company's directors in the course of that year engaged Mr. Story then preaching at Worcester to go to the West as a chaplain to the new settlement at Marietta. In the spring of 1789 he commenced his ministerial labors as an evangelist visiting the settlements in rotation. During the Indian war from 1791 to 1795 he preached during most of the time in the northwest block-house of Campus Martius. <br /> "When the war was over Mr. Story preached at the different settlements; but as there were no roads he made these pastoral visits by water in a log canoe propelled by stout arms and willing hearts. In 1796 he established a Congregational church composed of persons residing at Marietta Belpre Waterford and Vienna in Virginia. Mr. Story died December 30 1804 at the age of 49 years. He was a remarkable man and peculiarly fitted for the station he held." Howe Henry: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO VOL.II Columbus OH: 1891 p.505. See also Summers HISTORY OF MARIETTA page 202 1903. <br /> FIRST EDITION. 136 Eberstadt 525. Thomson 1112. Evans 34609. ESTC W3221. Brinley Sale 4573. Thomas C. Cushing unknown
1747794741747. STORY Thomas. A Journal of the Life of Thomas Story: Containing an Account of His Remarkable Convincement of and Embracing the Principles of Truth as Held by the People Called Quakers; and also of His Travels and Labours in the Service of the Gospel: with Many other Occurrences and Observations. Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by Isaac Thompson and Company 1747. Folio. iviv7688 index pp. Contemporary paneled calf decorated in blind period-style spine gilt-ruled raised spine bands black morocco spine label. Wear o head of spine foot of front outer hinge starting some wear to foredge of front board internally very clean else very good. HOWES S-1048. Sabin 92324. Clark I:156. Larned 882. Second issue printed at the publisher's "own Expence and Risque" according to the second preliminary leaf. "Story was a friend of William Penn who visited America and partly at his request prolonged his stay for 16 years. He was a member of the Council of Pennsylvania and held other offices including that of recorder in the city of Philadelphia. He also visited the Friends in other parts of the country. The American part of the narrative which includes visits to the West Indies forms pp. 147-463"-Sabin. Bookplate and signature of James Corder of Coggeshall on front pastedown. unknown
1747744301747. STORY Thomas. A Journal of the Life of Thomas Story: Containing an Account of His Remarkable Convincement of and Embracing the Principles of Truth as Held by the People Called Quakers; and also of His Travels and Labours in the service of the Gospel: with Many other Occurrences and Observations. Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by Isaac Thompson 1747. Folio. iviv7688 index pp. Contemporary paneled calf decorated in blind period-style spine gilt-ruled raised spine bands red morocco spine label. Inner hinges professionally reinforced early ownership signatures on title page light scattered foxing and toning else very good or better. HOWES S-1048. Sabin 92324. Clark I:156. Larned 882. Second issue printed at the publisher's "own Expence and Risque" according to the second preliminary leaf. "Story was a friend of William Penn who visited America and partly at his request prolonged his stay for 16 years. He was a member of the Council of Pennsylvania and held other offices including that of recorder in the city of Philadelphia. He also visited the Friends in other parts of the country. The American part of the narrative which includes visits to the West Indies forms pp. 147-463"-Sabin. unknown
