[Whitehead, George]:

$3,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST THE VENOME OF THE SNAKE IN THE GRASS: OR, THE BOOK SO STILED. AND THE CHRISTIAN PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS VINDICATED FROM ITS MOST GROSS ABUSES AND CALUMNIES. IN CERTAIN REFLECTIONS, ... Written by George Whitehead, collaborator of William Penn and one of the major early leaders of the Quaker faith, and containing several references to Quakers in America and Penn's colony in Pennsylvania. Whitehead writes in reply to three anti-Quaker works by Charles Leslie: The Snake in the Grass (Wing L1156), Satan Dis-Rob'd from his Disguise of Light (Wing L1149), and A Discourse Proving the Divine Institution of Water-Baptism. Quite scarce in the market.

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