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- Author:
- Toch, Hans
- Title:
- Police, Prisons, and the Problem of Violence
- Publisher:
- National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, 1977.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps, a bit soiled, but quite sound; 142 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90119
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- prisons, criminal law
- Author:
- Wade, John
- Title:
- A Treatise on the Police and Crimes of the Metropolis; Especially Juvenile Delinquency, Female Prostitution, Mendicity, Gaming, Forgery . . Also an Account of the Courts of Justice and Prisons of London; And . . . the Causes of the Increase of Crime &c.
- Publisher:
- Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1829.
- Description:
- Only edition of a work written by one of the foremost early 19th century radicals and reformers, John Wade, grouped in importance with William Cobbett and 'Orator' Hunt, and a great admirer of Bentham, who provided funds to establish Wade's newspaper
- Condition:
- Modern green cloth, ex-library, one preliminary leaf loose, else a good usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-77344
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Police, women's law, Gambling, Forgery, prisons
- Author:
- Speed, Samuel
- Title:
- Fragmenta Carceris: Or, The Kings-Bench Scuffle; with the Humors of the Common-Side. The Kings Bench Letany, and the Legend of Duke Humphrey. Wing S4901. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by J.R. for Tho. Rooks at the Lamb and Ink Bottle [etc.], London, 1675.
- Description:
- The work in verse dedicated to his fellow prisoners by Speed, the bookseller arrested on charges of publishing and distributing seditious works, full of irony and humor, opining that "Wisdom is the Wing of the Soul", in or out of prison
- Condition:
- Later mottled calf, gilt, rebacked, the original spine laid down, light browning, the margins cut close (main text unaffected); the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79917
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Poetry, humor, prisons, Law and Literature, criminal law
- Author:
- Sheppard, William
- Title:
- The Offices and Duties of Constables, Borsholders, Tything-men, Treasurers of the County-stock, Overseers for the Poore, and other lay-Ministers. Whereunto are adjoyned the severall Offices of Church-Ministers and Churchwardens. Wing S3200
- Publisher:
- Printed by Ric. Hodgkinsonne . . . for William Cooke [etc.], London, 1641.
- Description:
- First edition of Sheppard's first work, anticipating his many efforts as Cromwell's law reformer and "containing an important part of his philosophy of government", including two chapters on prisons and a final two (100+ pages) on church officials
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, somewhat rubbed, neatly rebacked, the original flyleaves (with jottings and squiggles) preserved, quite crisp; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79085
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, INDIA, Religion, poor law, prisons
- Author:
- Howard, John
- Title:
- The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, With Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals. The Second Edition [with] Historical Remarks and Anecdotes on the Castle of the Bastille. Baumgartner 3 and 32
- Publisher:
- Printed by William Eyres [and] Printed for T. Cadell, Warrington [and] London, 1780.
- Description:
- Howard's masterwork, displaying the enormous empirical data upon the treatment of prisoners amassed by him just as the major reforms of English criminal law began, coupled with the work on the Bastille, its publication then prohibited in France
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, with the eleven plates in the first work and the plan of the Bastille in the second; a pretty copy
- Book No.:
- W-77292
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- criminal law, New York, prisons, Procedure
- Author:
- Howard, John
- Title:
- The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, With Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals. The Third Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by William Eyres; and sold by T. Cadell [etc.], Warrington, 1784.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, half title backed, ex-library?, repairs; usable
- Book No.:
- W-62392
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- criminal law, New York, prisons, Procedure
- Author:
- Mandeville, Bernard
- Title:
- Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn: and A Proposal for some Regulations concerning Felons in Prison . . . To which is Added, A Discourse on Transportation, and a Method to render that Punishment more Effectual
- Publisher:
- Printed: And Sold by J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, London, 1725.
- Description:
- Mandeville's vivid account of the wretched state of public executions in England and its causes, anticipating Henry Fielding, Adam Smith, and Adam Ferguson, as "[m]any of the best minds of the English elite meditated upon it" and solutions to it
- Condition:
- Modern gray wraps, stab-sewn as issued, the half-title and last leaf quite dusty, else a very good clean copy; with the press-figure at page four
- Book No.:
- W-77464
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- criminal law, legal reform, Transportation, prisons
- Author:
- Title:
- An Account of All the Gaols, Houses of Corrections or Penitentiaries, in the United Kingdom . . . As Far As Relates to Scotland. Ordered by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 16 March 1819. Folio
- Publisher:
- N.p., London, 1819.
- Description:
- Arranged by county, reporting particulars for over eighty institutions, including the number of prisoners, their gender and whether under or over seventeen, whether debtor or criminal, and the allowances of food, money, and clothing, inter alia
- Condition:
- Modern cloth-backed marbled boards, the fore-margins cut close, but the sense preserved, else a very good copy, 21 pages; three copies in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-77195
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- prisons, IRELAND, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Callcott, Mary Stevenson
- Title:
- Russian Justice
- Publisher:
- Macmillan, New York, 1935.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy, in a somewhat worn and chipped dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-51768
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- CARIBBEAN, criminal law, prisons, SOVIET UNION
- Author:
- Title:
- An Agenda for Socio-Legal Research into the Regulation of Health and Safety at Work
- Publisher:
- Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford, 1983.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps; 70 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90536
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- criminal law, prisons
- Author:
- Howard, John
- Title:
- The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, With Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals. The Third Edition. Baumgartner 3 [calling for 22 plates, all of which are present here, many folding]. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by William Eyres; and Sold by T. Cadell [etc.], Warrington, 1784.
- Description:
- Howard's masterwork, displaying the enormous empirical data upon the treatment of prisoners amassed by him just as the major reforms of English criminal law began, this edition completely revised and much expanded following Howard's journeys in 1780
- Condition:
- Contemporary tree calf, rebacked, minor staining to the free endpapers, occasional foxing, else clean and wide-margined; without the half-title
- Book No.:
- W-77954
- Price:
- $ 700.00
- Category:
- criminal law, New York, prisons, Procedure
- Author:
- Fenton, Norman
- Title:
- The Prisoner's Family, A Study of Family Counseling in an Adult Correctional System
- Publisher:
- American Correctional Association, College Park, 1959.
- Description:
- Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Gilbert Geis, noted criminologist and authority on all aspects of social deviance
- Condition:
- Presentation copy, sound, in a discolored dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-90106
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Penology, prisons
- Author:
- Prigmore, Charles S. (ed.)
- Title:
- Manpower and Training for Corrections, Proceedings of an Arden House Conference, June 24-26, 1964
- Publisher:
- Council on Social Work Education, New York, 1966.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Presentation copy, sound, in slightly discolored yellow cloth
- Book No.:
- W-90029
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- prisons, Penology
- Author:
- Gurney, Joseph John
- Title:
- Notes on a Visit Made to Some of the Prisons in Scotland and the North of England, In Company With Elizabeth Fry; With some General Observations on the Subject of Prison Discipline. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. [etc.], Edinburgh, 1819.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original decorated boards, ex-library, crudely rebacked in cloth, the word 'Notes' excised from the title; a sound working copy
- Book No.:
- W-91349
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- prisons, criminal law, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- Community Based Correctional Programs, Models and Practices
- Publisher:
- National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, 1971.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps; 44 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90025
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- primitives, prisons, Penology
- Author:
- Selden, John (ed.)
- Title:
- Fleta, Seu Commentarius Juris Anglicani sic nuncupatus, sub Edwardo Rege primo seu circa annos abhinc CCCXL . . . Accedit Tractatulus vetus . . . Fet Assavoir . . . Subjungitur etiam Joannis Seldeni ad Fletam Dissertatio Historica [etc.]. Wing F1290A
- Publisher:
- Typis M.F. Prostant apud Guil. Lee, & Dan. Pakeman [etc.], London, 1647.
- Description:
- The best early edition of Fleta, one of the few substantial medieval English legal treatises, written in the late 13th century, and surviving it but a single manuscript; with Selden's masterly dissertation "loaded . . . with his remarkable erudition"
- Condition:
- Modern straight-grained morocco, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, lightly rubbed, some staining and marginal tears, else a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-76640
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- MEDIEVAL, English Law, prisons
- Author:
- Fielding, Henry
- Title:
- Murders. True Examples of the Interposition of Providence, in the Discovery and Punishment of Murder
- Publisher:
- Sold by S. Hazard . . . J. Marshall . . . R. White [etc.], Bath [and] London, 1795.
- Description:
- An uncommon selection from Fielding's highly popular tract, vigorously promoted by him and "aptly called [a part of] Fielding's 'war against robbery and murder'", originally written just after the enactment of the Murder Act of 1752
- Condition:
- Original self-wraps, the sewing loose, some browning, else well-preserved, 12 pages; with the image of a prison and hanged prisoner on the title
- Book No.:
- W-76420
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- criminal law, prisons
- Author:
- Conner, Ross F., et al.
- Title:
- Legal Aid and Legal Education for Prisoners: An Evaluation of the State Bar of Michigan's Prison Project
- Publisher:
- American Bar Association, Chicago, 1978.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps, embrowned but sound; 144 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90038
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- prisons
- Author:
- Howard, John
- Title:
- The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, With Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals. Third Edition [with] An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe [with] The Appendix. Baumgartner 3, 21, and 28. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by William Eyres; and Sold by T. Cadell [etc.], Warrington and London, 1784-91.
- Description:
- Presentation copies of both of Howard's major works, displaying the enormous empirical data amassed by him, to provide the bases for the first modern reforms of both prisons and hospitals; with the rare first issue of the appendix to the 'Lazarettos'
- Condition:
- Contemporary diced panelled calf, rebacked, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, very good copies; with the forty-five plates, many elaborately folding
- Book No.:
- W-76702
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- criminal law, New York, prisons, Procedure, Inscribed or Presentation Copy
- Author:
- Howard, John
- Title:
- An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe; With Various Papers Relative to the Plague: Together with Further Observations on Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals; and Additional Remarks on the Present State of Those in Great Britain and Ireland. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by William Eyres; and Sold by T. Cadell [& three others], London, 1789.
- Description:
- First edition of one of Howard's two major works, "the first survey . . . which had ever appeared", supplemented by Howard's further observations on prisons, providing the empirical bases for the first modern reforms of both prisons and hospitals
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, the original spine (worn) laid down, the front hinge cracked and the title a bit loose; a good copy with the plates
- Book No.:
- W-77811
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- prisons, criminal law, legal reform
- Author:
- Booth, William
- Title:
- The Compleat Sollicitor, Performing His Duty: and Teaching his Clyent . . . in His Majesties Superior Courts at Westminster: As in the Mayors Court, Court of Hustings, and other Inferior Courts, both in the City of London, and elswhere [etc.]. Wing B3738A
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford [etc.], London, 1666.
- Description:
- First edition of the first substantial treatise expressly devoted to the English solicitor, with chapters on all royal courts, the Exchequer, the Court of Requests, the Sheriffs Court, the Marshalsea, the Star Chamber, and the Court of Admiralty
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt, signature effaced on the title, light browning and some staining, else sound, with the first blank (chipped); the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79664
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- courts, London, sheriffs, prisons, Star Chamber, admiralty, Bench and Bar
- Author:
- Howard, John
- Title:
- An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe; With Various Papers Relative to the Plague: Together with Further Observations on Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals; and Additional Remarks on the Present State of Those in Great Britain and Ireland. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by William Eyres; and Sold by T. Cadell [and three others, London, 1789.
- Description:
- First edition of one of Howard's two major works, "the first survey . . . which had ever appeared", supplemented by Howard's further observations on prisons, providing the empirical bases for the first modern reforms of both prisons and hospitals
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, light browning; with the 23 plates, all but two folding, two with minor tears, else an attractive copy
- Book No.:
- W-74107
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- prisons, criminal law, legal reform
- Author:
- Title:
- First [through Fourth] Annual Report[s] of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society, Boston, June 2, 1826 [through 1829]
- Publisher:
- Published by Perkins and Marvin [imprint and editions vary], Boston, 1829-30.
- Description:
- The first four of the pioneering Society's reports, ones "serv[ing] as the penal textbooks for governors, legislators, and prison officers throughout the country"; Louis Dwight, its founder in 1825, was America's first national prison reform figure
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, quite worn, some foxing; a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-65967
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- prisons
- Author:
- Title:
- Report of the Visiting Justices; With Appendixes and Resolutions of the Court. House of Correction, Cold Bath Fields, January Quarter Sessions, 1847
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Thomas Morris, Aldersgate-Street, London, 1847.
- Description:
- The rare copy of the inspection report for the then "largest prison in the Empire", prompted in part by three special matters, including commutation of transportation sentences of juvenile convicts and the ensuing prospect of overcrowded conditions
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, a good clean copy, 23 pages; no copy in OCLC, COPAC, or the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
- Book No.:
- W-77150
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, prisons, Transportation, AUSTRALIA
- Author:
- Tompkins, Dorothy Campbell (comp.)
- Title:
- The Prison and the Prisoner
- Publisher:
- Institute of Governmental Studies, University of C, Berkeley, 1972.
- Description:
- Public Policy Bibliographies: 1
- Condition:
- Wraps; 156 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90094
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, prisons, Penology
- Author:
- Morris, Terence and Pauline
- Title:
- Pentonville, A Sociological Study of an English Prison
- Publisher:
- Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1963.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A good copy in a somewhat worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-17386
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- prisons
- Author:
- Petersilia, Joan and Susan Turner
- Title:
- Prison versus Probation in California, Implications for Crime and Offender Recidivism
- Publisher:
- Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, 1986.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps; 63 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90028
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Penology, California, prisons
- Author:
- Irwin, John
- Title:
- Prisons in Turmoil
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1980.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps; 277 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90101
- Price:
- $ 17.50
- Category:
- prisons
- Author:
- Craufurd, Quentin
- Title:
- The History of the Bastile: With a Concise Account of the Late Revolution in France. To Which Is Added, An Appendix, Containing, among other Particulars, An Enquiry into the History of the Prisoner with the Mask
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, London, 1790.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, the front board detached and the rear joint cracked, else a clean copy, with the half title and the elaborate folding plan
- Book No.:
- W-78522
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- FRANCE, prisons
- Author:
- Benjamin, Judith G., et al.
- Title:
- Pros and Cons: New Roles for Nonprofessionals in Corrections
- Publisher:
- U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, 1966.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed, stapled wraps; 127 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90076
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- prisons, Penology
- Author:
- Title:
- An Account of All the Gaols, Houses of Corrections or Penitentiaries, in the United Kingdom . . . As Far As Relates to Ireland. Ordered by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 16 March 1819. Folio
- Publisher:
- N.p., London, 1819.
- Description:
- Arranged by county, reporting particulars for over ninety institutions, including number of prisoners, their gender and whether under or over seventeen, whether debtor or criminal, and the allowances of food, money, and clothing, inter alia
- Condition:
- Modern cloth-backed marbled boards, the fore-margins cut close, but the sense preserved, else a very good copy, 21 pages; no copy in OCLC in the USA
- Book No.:
- W-77192
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- prisons, IRELAND
- Author:
- Walker, Donald
- Title:
- Penology for Profit, A History of the Texas Prison System 1867-1912
- Publisher:
- Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 1988.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-55499
- Price:
- $ 22.50
- Category:
- Texas, criminal law, prisons, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Freedman, Estelle B.
- Title:
- Their Sisters' Keepers, Women's Prison Reform in America, 1830-1930
- Publisher:
- University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1984.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-54033
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, prisons, women's law
- Author:
- Freedman, Estelle B.
- Title:
- Maternal Justice, Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1996.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-59081
- Price:
- $ 32.50
- Category:
- women's law, biography, legal reform, Juvenile Law, primitives, prisons
- Author:
- Bourdet-Pleville, Michel
- Title:
- Justice in Chains, From the Galleys to Devil's Island
- Publisher:
- Robert Hale, London, 1960.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-19470
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- criminal law, prisons, trials, FRANCE
- Author:
- Selden, John (ed.)
- Title:
- Fleta, Seu Commentarius Juris Anglicani sic nuncupatus, sub Edwardo Rege primo seu circa annos abhinc CCCXL . . . Accedit Tractatulus vetus . . . Fet Assavoir . . . Subjungitur etiam Joannis Seldeni ad Fletam Dissertatio Historica [etc.]. Wing F1290
- Publisher:
- Typis M.F. Prostant apud Guil. Lee, & Dan. Pakeman [etc.], London, 1647.
- Description:
- First and best early edition of Fleta, written in the late 13th century, with Selden's Dissertation upon it, called a "sophisticated survey of the history of Roman law in medieval Europe and England [and] his most mature piece of scholarship"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, the joints cracked but firm, light browning, else clean with good margins but not aesthetically pleasing
- Book No.:
- W-80102
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- MEDIEVAL, English Law, prisons, roman law
- Author:
- Farley, Edward
- Title:
- Imprisonment for Debt Unconstitutional and Oppressive, Proved from the Fundamental Principles of the British Constitution, and the Rights of Nature. ESTC T37076
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Author. And Sold by T. Hookham [etc.], London, 1788.
- Description:
- First (and most extensive) edition of a work central to the burgeoning movement to abolish imprisonment for debt, widely read, contending that the lawyers "have done more harm to this country than the plague, the pestilence, or the sword of tyrants"
- Condition:
- Contemporary speckled calf, neatly rebacked, ex-Wadsworth Library with its bookplate and circular blind stamp, very clean; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80149
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- bankruptcy, prisons, legal reform, Imprisonment for Debt
- Author:
- Crook, John
- Title:
- A True Information To the Nation, from the People called Quakers. Being a Brief account of the Proceedings Of some of the Magistrates in and about this City of London, Against the aforesaid People [in] 1664 [etc.]. Wing C7216. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed in the Year 1664, London, 1664.
- Description:
- Sole edition of the account by the noted Quaker leader and writer of the enforcement in London of the Conventicle Act [16 Charles II c.4] --forbidding non-Church of England religious assemblies of five or more--to lead to his own Newgate imprisonment
- Condition:
- Later 1/4 calf over marbled boards, black morocco label, gilt ruled and lettered, browning, else quite sound with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80198
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Religion, freedom of religion, Quakers and the Law, prisons
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