The general Address (in two Parts) of the Outinian Lecturer to his Auditors …. London: Printed by W. Nicol, late Bulmer & Co. … 1822.

[RICHARDSON, Jonathan].

Published by London: Printed by W. Nicol, late Bulmer & Co. … 1822, 1822

8vo., pp. [2], 56, with a lithographed title-page illustrating the medal of the Outinian Society, an engraved portrait frontispiece of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, and six other plates (Lady Juliana Penn, Vice-Admiral Sir William Penn, Thomas Penn, a memorial urn to Lady Juliana, the remains of the tree at Stoke Park under which the treaty between Penn and the Indians was signed, and a second portrait of Penn), tissue guards (foxed); contemporary hard grain morocco, rubbed; note on endleaf identifying the founder of the Outinian Society as John Penn; signature of the educationist and author Madame de Genlis, dated 1829 ('a friend of the family'), bookplate of Major Claud Alexander.First edition, very rare. The Address is a revised version of the valedictory lecture given on 31 December 1818 to mark the centenary of the death of William Penn. It gives an explanation of the origins of the Society and then is entirely directed to the career and particularly the principles of William Penn, based on 'traditional information' and 'publicly and privately attested facts'. The private information was doubtless supplied by John Penn (1760-1834), founder of the Society, who, as a surviving grandson of William Penn, succeeded his father to the moiety of the last proprietorship of Pennsylvania.The Outinian Society was originally founded in 1817 as the Matrimonial Society in response to an anonymous poem called 'Marriage' in the Monthly Magazine. It had the object of promoting marriage and improving the domestic life of married couples. Extending its aims to other schemes of human happiness to 'the more perfect knowledge of certain less obvious truths and principles of human action' it soon changed its name to the Outinian Society, apparently inspired by a line in Homer. John Penn was its president and editor, Jonathan Richardson its secretary and lecturer. The lectures were very popular: Records of the Origin and Proceedings of the Outinian Society (1822) lists well over 1000 names of Auditors who had attended.COPAC and OCLC list copies at the British Library, Society of Friends, and Harvard only. J.Smith, Friends' Books 2.326 (attributing it to John Penn). Language: English. Seller Inventory # E4804

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Title: The general Address (in two Parts) of the ...
Publisher: London: Printed by W. Nicol, late Bulmer & Co. … 1822
Publication Date: 1822
Binding: Soft cover
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Edition: 1st Edition