Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 206

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
SOCIETY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF PRISON DISCIPLINE. Description of the Tread Mill invented by Mr. William Cubitt, of Ipswich, for the Employment of Prisoners, and recommended by The Society of the Improvement of Prison Discipline, &c. 6 engraved plates, including 2 folding (backed with linen). 10 pages. 8vo, 19th-century 1/4 cloth; plates variously foxed. London: T. Bensley for Longman et al., 1822
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first edition. The civil engineer Cubitt (1785-1861) "invented the treadmill as a method of employing human labour to grind corn, in the same way as animal power was used at the time. This invention was rapidly adopted in the principal gaols of the United Kingdom, the first being erected in Bury St Edmunds in 1819; later sites included Bridewell Hospital in London" (ODNB).