Law, Crime and Punishment in the Late 18th and Early 19th Ce...

Hammer

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Law, Crime and Punishment in the Late 18th and Early 19th Century. A sammelband of 13 tracts, including the apparently unrecorded Anon, The Tread-Wheel. Copy of a Petition presented to The Right Honourable The Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom in Parliament Assembled, sole edition, London: Rodwell and Martin, et al., 1824, pp: [ii], 17, the others comprising Holwell, A New Experiment for the Prevention of Crimes, sole edition, Bath: R. Cruttwell, 1786, 36pp, Anon, Five Letters to Samuel Romilly, M.P. on the subject of his motion respecting The Penal Laws. By Anti Draco, sole edition, London: W. Clarke, 1810, 45pp, [Cooke (John)], A Pamphlet; called Old England for ever: From a Devonshire Jog-trot; Not of too high or low a rate, Exeter: printed (verbatim from the Author’s MS.) by T. Flindell, 1819, lacking title-page and all before C, but apparently complete in itself, pp: 33, [1], Christian, A Vindication of the Criminal Law […], inscribed presentation copy from the author, sole edition, London: Richard Watts, 1819, pp: 77, [1], Anon, Attornies not Conveyancers […], sole edition, London: Printed for Author, By Luke Hansard & Sons, 1820, pp: 77, [1], Norton, An Exposition of the Privileges of the City of London […], second edition, London: T. Steel, 1821, pp: [ii], [5]-72, Holford, Thoughts on the Criminal Prisons of this Country […], first edition, London: Rivington, 1821, pp: [iv], 80, viii, Holford, Statements and Observations concerning the Hulks, two parts, sole edition, London: C. and J. Rivington, 1826, pp: [iii]-xi, 124, Williams, An Inaugural Lecture, Delivered before The University of Oxford, sole edition, London: Davidson and Son, 1824, 43pp, Anon, A Review of the Arguments for Removing the Lent-Assizes from Thetford to Norwich […], By Vindex, Part I only (?all published), sole edition, Thetford: S. Mills, 1824, folding county map of Norfolk, pp: iv, 40, pasted errata slip to final leaf, London-Dock-Company. Copies of Resolutions […], first edition, London: Effingham Wilson, 1824, 32pp, [&] Anon, The Vagrant Act, in relation to the Liberty of the Subject. By a Barrister. With a Postscript, second edition, London: John Murray, 1824, 89pp, early-mid 19th century quarter-calf over marbled boards, disbound, bookseller's ticket: W.H. Bond/Law Bookseller/8, Bell Yard/Temple Bar, 8vo.