Folio (178 x 275 mm). (Significant losses, see below for details; toning, brown spotting, chipping.) Modern maroon library cloth (front board sunned). Provenance: William Worthington (ownership inscriptions with genealogical information recorded).

SECOND EDITION, AND EARLIEST AVAILABLE of William Penn's Quaker treatise, as there are no known extant copies of the 1673 first edition. Here, Penn defends the Quaker faith in direct response to a pamphlet issued by Baptist preacher Thomas Hicks, A Dialogue Between a Christian and a Quaker (1673). ESTC R37076; Sabin 59689; Wing P1267. 

Compared in detail with digitized copy held at the University of California. Lacking principle title page, first 20 pages as well as approx. 10 leaves at the end (irregular pagination throughout, with some sections with separate pagination, in final section from p. 334 to 135 and follows from there. From this section, lacking pp. 153-160, pp. 163-173, and pp. 176-177. With the pages in between which are present with significant losses and wear.