NECESSITY Of POPULAR EDUCATION, as A National Object; With Hints on the Treatment of Criminals, and Observations on Homicidal Insanity

by James Simpson

$175 · Offered by Tavistock Books

First edition

Boston: Marsh Capen & Lyon, 1834. 1st edition thus. xii, [13] - 262 pp, 12mo. Original brown cloth with paper spine label. Simpson, an acquiantance of Scott, known for his agitation for educational reform, and lectured widely in Scotland & England on the subject. This imprint not in American Imprints..... More

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