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The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons
de Howard, John
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- Bien
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Bien
- Librería
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Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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Warrington: William Eyres [Printer]; T. Cadell and N. Conant, 1777. [9], 2-489pp, [21]; [7], 2-286pp, [10]. Published in 1777 and 1784. Full leather, later rebacked, smooth back, spine divided into six panels by gilt rules, title label to second panel, remaining panels with central gilt lozenge shaped device, gilt roll border to covers and inner edges, spot pattern marbled endpapers. Worn to extremities, with small amounts of loss to leather, corners bumped and worn. Internally some light foxing and browning to text, occasional pencil notes and underlining, inner joints renewed with matching marbled paper, plates are often browned and occasionally lightly foxed, but tolerably so, closed tear to fore edge margin of Z2. Previous owner's name to ffep, and the armorial bookplate of Jerh. Harman to front pastedown. The main text is the first edition, the Appendix is the second and best, enlarged, edition, (originally published in 1780 but with only seven engraved plates), without the initial blank, but with the half-title and the 'Directions to the Book-Binder' leaf at the end, in addition to the extra plates Howard has added stories from his journeys in 1781 and 1783. Complete with twenty-one engraved plates and plans, almost all folding. The first edition of the "first major practical work on the subject ... his single-handed campaign not only caused a revolution in his lifetime, but is the direct progenitor of subsequent work in the most critical branch of penal reform" (PMM). Baumgartner 1 (Prisons) and 11 (Appendix); Garrison and Morton (3rd ed.), 1598; Goldsmiths 11625; PMM 224; Rothschild 1163; Wellcome III:306. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 4to.
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- Zetetic Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 003909
- Título
- The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons
- Autor
- Howard, John
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- William Eyres [Printer]; T. Cadell and N. Conant
- Lugar de publicación
- Warrington
- Fecha de publicación
- 1777
- Tamaño
- 4to
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Noisbn, Howard, Gaols, Prisons, Jails, PMM, Prison Reform, Hospitals
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Eighteenth Century; Politics; Provincial Printing and Binding; Science and Medicine;
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- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
