PENN WILLIAM Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxi

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PENN, WILLIAM. Some Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life * More Fruits of Solitude. 2 volumes in one. 12mo, contemporary calf, moderate wear; moderate foxing, lacking front free endpaper, moderate dampstaining in second book, index leaf misbound after preface, final leaf H11 defective with loss of top text; early owner's inscriptions on rear free endpaper. London: Tace Sowle, 1706, 1702

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Seventh edition of a collection of aphorisms issued between Penn's stints in Pennsylvania. Bronner & Fraser, Penn's Published Writings, 96L, 125; ESTC T139128, T139129; European Americana 706/178, 702/150; Smith, Friends' Books, page II:309, 312. No early editions have appeared at auction since 1977.