A Report Of A Committee Of The Humane Society Appointed To Inquire Into The Number Of Tavern

by Humane Society Of The City Of New York

$125 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

New York: published and sold by Collins & Perkins, no. 189 Pearl-Street, 1810. 8vo, pp. 15, 1 ; removed from binding; chip on lower corner of title page, last leaf separated, old fold; good. The committee recommended stricter licensing for the city's 3500 taverns, and paints a graphic description of the appalling conditions at Bridewell prison. They describe cells in which women eat out of troughs and rats eat the clothes off the insane. American Imprints

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