The State of the Prisons in England and Wales with Appendix to the State of the Prisons in England and Wales, &ct Containing a Further Account of Foreign Prisions and Hospitals, with Additional Remarks on the Prisons of the County
Warrington: William Eyers, 1777 and 1784. 1st. Hardcover. large 4to., contemporary half calf and marblrd boards. Front hinge separated. 21 folding plates with some offsetting. 820 pp. First major practical work on prison reform. An immensley influential book by the high sheriff of Bedford gaol that found permanent support in the Howard League. "His single-handed campaign not only caused a revolution in his lifetime, but is the direct progenitor of subsquent work in the most critical branch of penal reform." - Carter & Muir, Printing & the Mind of Man, 224. The fine plates include plans of the jails Howard visited in Paris, Rome, Milan, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Amsterdam, ect.; and the layout of an ideal prison that would put in effect the reforms he urged. EB (1911), XIII, pp. 832-3. There was an additional appendix in 1880. Kenneth Nebenzahl's description laid in from I'm sure is decades old. Item #9028450
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