First Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. 186 and 137 leaves, errata list at the end of each volume.
Quérard I, 521 (with Paris imprint).
Calf, marbled endpapers, green silk bookmarks. Not initialled by Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Entered without price on the undated manuscript catalogue.
Brissot de Warville was a friend of Jefferson, and a number of his works appear in this catalogue. This and other works by him on this subject
gave momentum to the penal reform movement.
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Howard on Prisons.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 98, no. 372, as above.
HOWARD,
John.
The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, with preliminary observations, and an account of some foreign prisons and hospitals.
By John Howard, F. R. S. . . . The
third edition.
Warrington: printed by
William Eyres; and sold by
T. Cadell,
J. Johnson, and
C. Dilly, in
London,
m. dcc. lxxxiv
. [1784.]
HV8980 .H7
4to. 258 leaves, 22 plates, full page, double page and folded, some signed by Isaac Taylor after M. Fischer and after M. Blackamore; by T. Miller and others.
Lowndes II, 1127.
Seligman VII, 521 (not this edition).
Palgrave II, 234.
Entered without price on the undated manuscript catalogue.
John Howard, 1726-1790, English philanthropist and social reformer, is noted chiefly for his work in prison reform, undertaken after
becoming sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1773. The first edition of this work was published in Warrington in 1777, and had a real
influence on the improvement of prisons in Europe and in America, where it inspired the activities of the Philadelphia Society
for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, the first beginnings of prison reform in the United States.
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Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.
1815 Catalogue, page 105. no. 107, The Penitentiary of Newyork, 8vo.
[EDDY,
Thomas.]
An account of the State Prison or penitentiary house, in the city of New-York. By one of the inspectors of the prison . .
.
New-York: printed by
Isaac Collins and Son,
1801.
HV9475 .N75 E3
First Edition. 8vo. 55 leaves, some folded, pagination irregular, folded engraved plate by Gilbert Fox after Joseph F. Mangin.
Halkett and Laing I, 21.
Sabin 21816.
Smith,
A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends’ Books, Supplement, 113.
Original tree calf (probably bound for Jefferson). Not initialled by Jefferson, who has written on the title-page in ink the name of the author, Thomas Eddy. In the upper margin is written in pencil, in another hand, the chapter and shelf
number, 24. 107. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Thomas Eddy, 1785-1827, Quaker prison reformer, known as “The John Howard of America”. In addition to prison reform Eddy was interested
also in the insane, and helped to found Bloomingdale’s Asylum for the Insane.
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Foronda sobre la Policià.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 98. no. 16, Foronda sobra la Policia, 12mo.
FORONDA,
Valentin de.
Cartas sobre la Policía. Por Don Valentin de Foronda. Con licencia.
Madrid: en la imprenta de
Cano. Año de
1801.
HV8236 .F7
