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TUKE, SAMUEL. Description of the Retreat, an Institution near York, for Insane Persons of the Society of Friends.Containing an Account of its Origin and Progress, the Modes of Treatment, and a Statement of Cases. 3 double-page engraved plates of the Retreat, comprising frontispiece view and 2 ground plans. 227, [1] pages. 4to, 283x223 mm, modern 1/4 morocco; foxing mainly at beginning and end, offsetting from plates onto facing pages, scattered marginal fingersoiling; uncut. 19th-century bookplate of St. George's Instruction Society, their stamp on title. York: W. Alexander, 1813
first edition, large-paper issue, in quarto format. "This was the first detailed account of reformed methods of treating the insane, and was significant in the wider diffusion of moral treatment, particularly in British and American asylums" (ODNB). Garrison-Morton 4925.1; Hunter & Macalpine, pages 684-90; Norman 2210.
