Hardcover
1941 · Philadelphia
by Konkle, Burton Alva
Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, 1941. Hardcover. G (Some scuffs to covers; edges of book block and some pages have light foxing; text is clear; former owner info on first page.). Maroon cloth, gilt letters on spine, 169 pp., 16 BW illus. Biography of the colonial American lawyer who became the 18th Speaker of the House of the Pennsylvania Representatives. He also defended printer John Peter Zenger in his court case of 1735. One of more than twenty volumes written by Konkle, who made a personal vow to bring details of the lives of key Pennsylvanians and Quakers to the general public knowledge. Scarce.
(Inventory #: 154018)