West Chester: Joseph Painter. Edge worn and lightly peeled leather covers, spine ends chipped, spine leather marked, label darkened, front hinge broken, back cover missing. Owner name from 1839, binder name plate, Swarthmore historical library bookplate and discard stamps, pages foxed - still very legible. 109 pages plus index, about 4"x6". Scarce in original edition. . Fair+. Full Leather. 1838.

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Bookseller: Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 035494
Title: Rules of Discipline of the Yearly Meeting of Friends
Author: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Format/Binding: Full Leather
Book Condition: Used - Fair+
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Joseph Painter
Place of Publication: West Chester
Date Published: 1838
Keywords: DISCIPLINE; QUAKERISM; PHILADELPHIA YM; RELIGION; QUAKER

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About Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop

We got started selling online as Vintage Quaker Books in 2013 and opened a storefront under the name The Corner Bookshop in 2020. Vintage Quaker Books sells books by, for, and about Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) and a variety of other Christian books. The Corner Bookshop is a general used bookstore located in a cozy basement under/behind the main shopping street of Front Street in Bath, Maine.

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Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Fair+: Used to describe a book in slightly better than Fair condition. Fair describes "a worn book that has complete text pages...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.