Penelve; or Among the Quakers. An American story. London; Philadelphia: Headley Brothers; J.C. Winston & Co., 1898.
8vo. [xii], 366 pp., including 2 pages publisher's advertisements. With frontispiece and 4 plates. Original green illustrated publisher's cloth, lightly worn. $40.00
First edition (joint English and American imprint). The story of an agnostic from New York who converts to the Quaker faith. Thomas (1854-1904) was an American physician who practiced in Baltimore. He was also the author of several historical works on Quakers as well as a work of poetry entitled Echoes and Pictures. BMC, XXV, 834
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