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COMPLETE IN FOURTEEN VOLUMES — including the scarce final Vol. XIV (1850), the volume almost always missing from surviving sets.The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, & Other Writings of Members of the Religious Society of Friends. Edited by William Evans and Thomas Evans. Philadelphia: printed by Joseph Rakestraw, for the editors, 1837–1850.A matched set in full contemporary leather — uniform bindings with raised bands and gilt spine labels across all fourteen volumes, kept together since publication. Contents span the founding generation of Quakerism: George Fox's contemporaries, William Penn (Vol. V), Thomas Ellwood, Thomas Story, John Fothergill, Richard Davies, and dozens of other journals, epistles, and memoirs — a primary-source library of early American Quaker history in one set.Condition: Bindings strong and intact; text blocks tight and square. Honest age-appropriate wear — some scuffing to boards, occasional foxing, one volume with minor headcap wear, one volume with some spine reveal but remaining tightly bound (see pictures), period pencil inscriptions on several volumes. Overall very good for a set of this age and scarcity. These are well-made volumes.The shelf run is approximately: 20"L x 10.5"H x 7"D. Individual volumes are approximately 10.5"h x 6.75"w x 1.5" thick.The set you see is the set you receive. See all photos, including the Vol. XIV (1850) title page.Curated by Blackwood Foundlings
