Front cover image for The history of Pennsylvania in North America, from the original institution and settlement of that province under the first proprietor and governor, William Penn, in 1681, till after the year 1742 : with an introduction respecting the life of W. Penn, prior to the grant of the province, and the religious society of the people called Quakers : with the first rise of the neighbouring colonies, more particularly of West-New-Jersey, and the settlement of the Dutch and Swedes on Delaware : to which is added a brief description of the said province and of the general states in which it flourished, principally between the years 1760 and 1770 : the whole including a variety of things, useful and interesting to be known, respecting that country in early time, &c. : with an appendix

The history of Pennsylvania in North America, from the original institution and settlement of that province under the first proprietor and governor, William Penn, in 1681, till after the year 1742 : with an introduction respecting the life of W. Penn, prior to the grant of the province, and the religious society of the people called Quakers : with the first rise of the neighbouring colonies, more particularly of West-New-Jersey, and the settlement of the Dutch and Swedes on Delaware : to which is added a brief description of the said province and of the general states in which it flourished, principally between the years 1760 and 1770 : the whole including a variety of things, useful and interesting to be known, respecting that country in early time, &c. : with an appendix

Print Book, English, 1797-1798
Printed and sold by Zachariah Poulson, Junior, number eighty, Chesnut-street, Philadelphia, 1797-1798
Early works
2 volumes : 1 map, 1 portrait (engravings) ; 22 cm. (8vo)
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I. Introduction. The history of Pennsylvania, 1676-1709
II. The history of Pennsylvania, 1709-1763. A view of the province of Pennsylvania ... between the years 1760 and 1770. Extract from two short Latin poems ... by Thomas Makin. Appendix
Volume 2 has imprint: Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Zachariah Poulson, Junior, no. 106, Chesnut-Street, nearly opposite to the Bank of North America. 1798
Volume 1: 508 pages, [1] leaf of plates; volume 2: 373, [1], 146 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates
Error in paging: volume 1, page 184 printed as 814
Frontispiece portrait of William Penn (volume 1) signed: "J.J. Barralet direxit. [Alexander] Lawson sculp. Drawn from the original bust in the Loganian Library Philadelphia 1 Novr 1797."
Map of Pennsylvania (volume 2) engraved by James Thackara
"Appendix to the history of Pennsylvania": volume 2, pages 1-132 (at end), separately paged
Title vignettes; head- and tail-pieces; initials
Errata: volume 1, page 508, volume 2, page 146 at end
LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection