Item #2909 Lays of Quakerdom : Reprinted from the Knickerbocker of 1853-54-55. Ruth Plumley, pseud. of Benjamin Rush Plumley.

Lays of Quakerdom : Reprinted from the Knickerbocker of 1853-54-55

Philadelphia, PA: The Biddle Press, [1910?]. Hardcover. With the pencil signature of "Lydia C. Biddle" (the publisher is The Biddle Press) at top of ffep. Cloth backed paper boards, title stamped in black onto upper board, 12mo (6-5/8 inches tall), pp. 59. Contains three Quaker narrative poems with short biographies "The Execution of Mary Dyer." ; "Visit of Mary Fisher to the Sultan Mohammed IV." ; "James Parnell, The Quaker Proto-Martyr." Volume with corners bumped and rubbed through, gutter crack at p. 45, covers lightly rubbed and stained, two library rubber stamps and their numbers in pencil to front pastedown else clean and unmarked. Good. Item #2909

Lydia C. Biddle was born on January 4, 1841 in Philadelphia and was from a prominent Quaker family in Pennsylvania. ref. myheritage dot com.

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