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HOWARD, JOHN. The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals . . . Second Edition. 11 engraved plates. [8], 449, [19] pages, including half-title. 8vo, modern 1/4 brown morocco; offsetting from plates onto adjacent leaves. Warrington: William Eyres for T. Cadell and N. Conant, London, 1780
"The first major practical work on prison reform from the standpoint of design, sanitation, and methods of operation" (Norman). Garrison-Morton 1598; Norman 1108; Printing and the Mind of Man 224 (all citing the 1777 original edition); Baumgartner 2 (this edition).
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