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WILLIAM PENN PRESENTATION COPY. PENN, WILLIAM. 1644-1718. No Cross, No Crown. A Discourse Showing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ.... London: Printed for Mark Swaner..., 1682.
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WILLIAM PENN PRESENTATION COPY.
PENN, WILLIAM. 1644-1718. No Cross, No Crown. A Discourse Showing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ.... London: Printed for Mark Swaner..., 1682.
8vo (150 x 95 mm). Period calf, gilt-lettered red label to spine. Some toning and thumbing to leaves, old repairs at joints, upper cover detached but present.
Provenance: Lancelot Holland (bookplate).
PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "For Collor Bamfield. / By the / Author," to front free endpaper. In 1669 William Penn was imprisoned in the Tower of London for writing two pamphlets critical of all organized religions except for Quakerism. Given writing materials to compose an apology, Penn instead wrote No Cross, No Crown, a full-length defense of Quakerism and the importance of self-denial in the Christian life. Penn spent the 1670s engaged in agitation over religious intolerance, until Charles II granted him the charter to what would be known as Pennsylvania, making Penn the largest private non-royal landowner in North America.
After convincing Quakers and other persecuted religious minorities to emigrate to America, Penn then set about creating a framework for an ethical, democratic society. After 20 drafts, Penn produced the "Framework of Government," an important precursor of our Constitution and the first government charter to include a process for self-amendment.
The present copy is the 1682 edition of Penn's work, reprinted in London while the author was in the New World beginning his grand experiment. Penn likely collected this copy in 1684 upon his return to London, and presented it after traveling back to America. It's difficult to know who Councillor Bamfield (the subject of this presentation) was, but one of the earliest drafts of Penn's Frame of Government is attributed to a writer of that name, making it likely that this is an association copy between two important authors of the "Framework of Government."
8vo (150 x 95 mm). Period calf, gilt-lettered red label to spine. Some toning and thumbing to leaves, old repairs at joints, upper cover detached but present.
Provenance: Lancelot Holland (bookplate).
PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "For Collor Bamfield. / By the / Author," to front free endpaper. In 1669 William Penn was imprisoned in the Tower of London for writing two pamphlets critical of all organized religions except for Quakerism. Given writing materials to compose an apology, Penn instead wrote No Cross, No Crown, a full-length defense of Quakerism and the importance of self-denial in the Christian life. Penn spent the 1670s engaged in agitation over religious intolerance, until Charles II granted him the charter to what would be known as Pennsylvania, making Penn the largest private non-royal landowner in North America.
After convincing Quakers and other persecuted religious minorities to emigrate to America, Penn then set about creating a framework for an ethical, democratic society. After 20 drafts, Penn produced the "Framework of Government," an important precursor of our Constitution and the first government charter to include a process for self-amendment.
The present copy is the 1682 edition of Penn's work, reprinted in London while the author was in the New World beginning his grand experiment. Penn likely collected this copy in 1684 upon his return to London, and presented it after traveling back to America. It's difficult to know who Councillor Bamfield (the subject of this presentation) was, but one of the earliest drafts of Penn's Frame of Government is attributed to a writer of that name, making it likely that this is an association copy between two important authors of the "Framework of Government."