Pennsylvania Quakers

Scarce book: An Address to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, by Those Freemen, of the City of Philadelphia, who are now confined in the Mason's Lodge, by virtue of a General Warrant Signed in Council by the Vice President of the Council of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1777. Rebound hardcover in quarter morocco with marbled boards, 5.25 x 8.25, 52 pages. The text, signed in type by Israel Pemberton and twenty-one others, includes copies of orders of the Supreme Executive Council, remonstrances addressed to the Council, and other papers upon the state's arrest of Quakers (including himself) on suspicion of Loyalist sympathies during the Revolutionary War, and their confinement without a hearing or trial. Book condition: VG/None, with mottled foxing to textblock and an ownership inscription ("Sarah Fisher, 1808") to title page.