PARTICULARS OF THE AMERICAN EDITIONS

OF

THE JOURNAL OF GEORGE FOX.


1.—FOURTH EDITION, 1800.—Title as C, but without Scripture quotation. “Fourth Edition in two Volumes.”

New York: Printed by Isaac Collins, No. 189, Pearl Street, 1800. Large 8vo.

It is possible that this, the first American edition, was styled “Fourth Edition,” in sequence to the “Third Edition,” published in England.

2.—FIFTH EDITION, 1808.—Title as C. “The Fifth Edition, corrected. In two volumes.”

Philadelphia. Printed for B. and T. Kite, No. 20, North Third Street. Fry and Kammerer, Printers, 1808. Large 8vo., vol. i., pp. 542, vol. ii., pp. 485 and Index.

This edition rightly follows the Fourth (American) Edition, as “The Fifth Edition,” but it was apparently not reckoned for, when the English edition of 1836 was styled the “Sixth Edition.”

3.—ANOTHER EDITION, 1831.—Title as C. “Corrected by the first edition.” In two volumes, forming vols. i. and ii. of The Works of George Fox (in 8 vols.).

Philadelphia: Marcus T. C. Gould, No. 6, North Eighth Street; New York: Isaac T. Hopper, No. 420, Pearl Street. J. Harding, Printer,[66] 1831. Large 8vo., vol. i., pp. 437, vol. ii., pp. 384 and 9 pages of Index.

4.—STEREOTYPE EDITION, no date. Title as C, but incorrect reference to “Dan. xii. 1.”

Philadelphia: Published at Friends’ Book Store, No. 84, Mulberry Street. Large 8vo., pp. liv., 662 and 10 pages of Index.

From a Minute of the Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, under date of 12mo. 25, 1832, it seems that the stereotype plates of the Journal were so nearly completed that the Treasurer of the Yearly Meeting was authorised to pay for same, and in the following 4th month, a bill passed the Meeting for Sufferings for printing 500 copies of same.

Many of above particulars have been kindly supplied by Morgan Bunting, George J. Scattergood, and Wm. C. Cowperthwaite, of Philadelphia.