REMARKS OF SOME OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS, Affecting Poverty, Vice, and Crime; Being the General Topics of a Charge to the Grand Jury of the County of Suffolk

by Josiah Quincy

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First edition · Signed

Cambridge, MA : Printed at the University Press, by Hilliard & Metcalf, 1822. First edition. 8vo. 28pp. Stitched sheets. Very good. Inscribed by Quincy to Samuel P. Land Loud? Esq. Here, as a judge of the Boston Municipal Court, Quincy speaks on the relationship of poverty to crime and urges reform in the city's jail system. - COHEN 4378. Item #66198

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