The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, By Way of Abstract: KENDALL (John).

HARDWEN AND CHARLES BRAGG'S COPY

Containing what is most Especially Instructive in the Historical Parts: Also the many Edifying Examples and Discourses which are Met with in these Excellent Writings. Collected with much Care and Attention, with a View to Promote the Reading and Knowledge of the Scriptures.

First Edition. Two volumes. 12mo. [181 x 107 x 66 mm]. vii, [i], 484 pp; [1]f, 468 pp. Contemporary binding of marbled calf, smooth spines divided into six panels by gilt double fillets, lettered in the second on a red goatskin label, numbered in the fourth, the edges of the boards hatched in gilt, plain endleaves and edges. (Short crack to foot of upper joint and lower headcap on vol.1, a little rubbed).
London: printed and sold by William Phillips, George Yard, Lombard Street, 1800.

A fine copy with ink calligraphic inscriptions on front endleaves: "Hadwen Bragg, Newcastle, 1800" and "Charles Bragg 1840". Hadwen Bragg (1763-1820) was a Newcastle Quaker and a draper with a shop in Pilgrim Street. In 1790 he married Margaret Wilson (1761-1840), and they had two children, Rachel and Charles. Rachel (1791-1854) married Jonathan Priestman in 1814, and their daughter Elizabeth (1815-1841) married John Bright in 1839. Hadwen rebuilt Summer Hill House in Elswick Lane.

The chief work of the prominent Colchester Quaker, John Kendall (1726-1815), and used widely amongst the families and schools of Friends. It is now rare with ESTC locating 11 copies (British Library, Glasgow University, two at the Library of the Religious Society of Friends, University of Essex, Niedersachsische, Swarthmore College, Haverford College, Dunedin Public Library, Private Collection and State Library of South Australia). No copies are currently being offered for sale online.

Stock no. ebc7792