The Friend of Peace ... by Philo Pacificus
Boston: published by Joseph T. Buckingham; [and] Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf, [1819]-1821. 2 volumes, 8vo, containing 24 issues for the first two years, each separately paginated; contemporary and likely original quarter sheep over marbled boards, red morocco label on gilt-paneled spines; ex-Pepperell Public Library with their rubberstamps on the endpaper and front flyleaf of volume I, small pressure stamps on the title pages, and with old stickers on spines. Issue X with gathering '4' in duplicate and wanting gathering '3'. All else very good and sound. Bound in at the back of the second volume is: A Catalogue of the Officers and Members of the Massachusetts Peace Society, Including Nine Branches or Auxiliaries, March 1, 1819. Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf, 1819, pp. 12, 3, [1]; includes Constitution of the Massachusetts Peace Society [second count], American Imprints 48638; A Catalogue of the Officers and Members of the Massachusetts Peace Society, including Thirteen Branches or Auxiliaries, March 1, 1820. Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf, 1819, pp. 15, [1]; American Imprints 2176; Address, delivered at the Fifth Anniversary of the Massachusetts Peace Society, December 25th, 1820, by the Hon. Josiah Quincy, Cambridge: Hilliard and Metcalf, 1821, pp. 32; American Imprints 6529; Fifth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Peace Society [drop title], pp. 8; American Imprints 2178; Sixth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Peace Society [drop title], pp. 8; American Imprints 9430; [Bogue, David.] Appendix to No. 4, vol. II of the Friend of Peace [drop title], pp. 8; not found in American Imprints; A Solemn Review of the Custom of War Showing that War is the Effect of Popular Delusion, and Proposing a Remedy. By Philo Pacificus [i.e. Noah Worcester] ... Fifth edition, Cambridge; printed by Hilliard and Metcalf. Sold by Wells & Lilly, No. 97, Court-Street, Boston, 1816, pp. 32; American Imprints 39872. Worcester (1758-1837) was a fifer in the Revolution and later a clergyman who "came to regard war, whether offensive or defensive, as unjustifiable" (see DAB). A pioneer of the American peace movement, in December 1814, he published A Solemn Review of the Custom of War (under the pen-name Philo Pacificus), "still considered one of the best pieces of anti-war literature ever committed to print, and as relevant today as then. In 1815, he founded the Massachusetts Peace Society, serving as its secretary until 1828. From 1819 to 1828 he tirelessly edited The Friend of Peace, a quarterly periodical of the Society, as well as wrote most of its content. In 1828, the Massachusetts Peace Society merged with the newly formed American Peace Society" (Wikipedia). Among the contributors, besides Worcester himself, are Thomas Jefferson and John Jay (each contributing letters), Thomas Paine, and extracts from William Penn and Benjamin Franklin, etc. Item #60035
Price: $300.00
