The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons and Hospital
Book Description
                        Third Edition   
4to, [A]4, B-Z, Aa-Zz, 3A-3S4, 3T 2+1, complete with 1/2-title and “Directions to the Book-binder”, 22 engraved plates, many folding, contemporary 1/2 roan, marbled bds, some skinning to boards, joints a little tender, heraldic ex-libris of Howard Vyse on front paste down, a respectable copy.
                    
                                            Dealer Notes
                            A classic of penal reform
Of the first edition [1777], Printing and the Mind of Man says “His single-handed campaign not only caused a revolution in his lifetime but is the direct progenitor of subsequent work in the most critical branch of penal reform.”
ESTC T115096
                                    Of the first edition [1777], Printing and the Mind of Man says “His single-handed campaign not only caused a revolution in his lifetime but is the direct progenitor of subsequent work in the most critical branch of penal reform.”
ESTC T115096
                        Author
                        HOWARD, John (1726-1790
                    
                    
                    
                    
                                        
                        Publisher
                        Warrington: Printed by William Eyres: and sold by T. Cadell, J. Johnson. and C. Dilly in London. 1784
                    
                    
                    
                    
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