Proposals for Building in Every County a Working-Alms-House or..

by Richard Haines

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Anticipated the Workhouse Movement Haines, Richard 1633-1685 . Proposals for Building in Every County a Working-Alms-House or Hospital; As the Best Expedient to Perfect the Trade and Manufactory of Linnen-Cloth. London: Printed by W.G. for R. Harford, 1677. ii , 12; 16 pp. 2 parts in 1 with separate pagination and register. Quarto 7-1/4 x 5-1/2 . Stab-stitched pamphlet bound in recent quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt rules to calf edges, gilt fillets,

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