TUKE SAMUEL Description of the Retreat an Institution near Y

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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 folding frontispiece view (lightly foxed, offsetting onto title) and 2 ground plans. 8vo, modern mottled calf with morocco lettering piece. York, 1813

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first edition, small-paper issue. "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; Upcott, page 1380; Zilboorg, page 579.