The state of the prisons in England and Wales, with preliminary observations, and an account of some foreign prisons and hospitals ... The third edition

by John Howard

$450 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Warrington: printed by William Eyres, and sold by T. Cadell et al. , 1784. 4to, pp. 6 , 492, 14 ; half-title wanting; 22 engraved plates 19 folding ; contemporary full calf, red morocco label on spine; spine scuffed and rubbed with repair at top and bottom, also with repair at joints; newspaper shadow on pp. 112-113; text block generally clean; a good copy, sometime recased. Printing and the Mind of Man 224, citing the first edition of 1777: From the

• Binding: Leather

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