The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, With Preliminary..

by John Howard

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A Landmark Study of Prisons Howard, John 1726-1790 . The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, With Preliminary Observations, And an Account of Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals. Warrington: Printed by William Eyres; And Sold by T. Cadell, 1780. viii , 449, 19 pp. With 11 copperplates one a double plate , 9 folding, and a half-title. Complete, final 2 leaves present in duplicate. Octavo 9 x 5-1/2 . Contemporary mottled three-quarter calf over marbled

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