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Duodecimo (181 × 112 mm). Later pastiche binding of green quarter cloth and drab boards using old paper, facsimile printed label. Engraved map, 12 pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear. A few earlier holes to paper covering on boards, some light foxing and occasional small blemishes to contents. A very good copy. ¶ Printing and the Mind of Man 294. Pauline Gregg, A Social and Economic History of Britain , George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1972. £1,250 [124549] 37 COLQUHOUN, Patrick. A Treatise on Indigence; exhibiting a general view of the national resources for productive labour; with propositions for ameliorating the condition of the poor . . . London: J. Hatchard, 1806 The Pauper Police First edition of Colquhoun’s major work on the question of poverty and pauperism, its relationship to crime and disorder and the need for a new comprehensive system of police. This valuable work contains plans for a board of education, national savings bank with state guarantee to depositors, a system of reproductive work for the unemployed, a national poor-rate uniformly assessed, and the issue of a police gazette, containing statistics of crime and descriptions of the persons of offenders. Octavo (209 × 136 mm). Recent quarter calf, spine lettered in gilt, marbled boards, green laid paper endpapers. Complete with folding table at p. 23 and final advertisement leaf. Ownership stamp of the Women’s University Settlement, Nelson Square, Southwark to front free endpaper and to upper margin of p. 83, shelfmark to title in ink. Short tear in the gutter at the head of the title, title a little dust soiled at head, occasional light spotting; a very good copy. ¶ Goldsmiths’ 19292; McCulloch, p. 286. £1,875 [119913]
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Octavo. Original pictorial “vivid orange yellow” (Cohen) wrappers printed in greyish green and black. Housed in a black cloth solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Wrappers a little rubbed and soiled, some chips from the corners, a few minor edge-splits, spine a little sunned and creased, but near complete, no loss of text from the wrappers, book block typically browned. Despite the apparent catalogue of faults, this is in fact an unusually well-preserved copy. ¶ Cohen A31.2.a; Langworth, pp. 96–100; Wood A16a. £5,750 [88138] 36 COBBETT, William. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Somersetshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Hertfordshire. London: William Cobbett, 1830 The radical reformer surveys Britain First edition in book form of this masterpiece of description and political journalism, deservedly the best known of Cobbett’s works. The Rural Rides were originally a series of letters which began in the Political Register , the weekly periodical Cobbett established in 1802 and conducted until his death in 1835. Cobbett wanted to maintain Britain’s original state of agrarian equilibrium and his influence was wide: he “offered no plan, but owed his popularity to his stinging pen and trenchant criticism. He was an ardent agrarian reformer, a burning opponent of industrialism, a keen social critic and a writer of the best prose in the English language” (Gregg, p. 281).
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