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Verlag: Printed for J Johnson, London, 1792
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. Bright rebound copy of the first edition of John Aikin's biographical sketch of John Howard. The first edition of this work, an uncommon copy.Biographical sketch of the life and deeds of John Howard (1726-1790), English philanthropist and early prison reformer. An ode to his public services by John Aikin.Complete with engraved frontispiece.ESTC T8557. Rebound in duo cloth with titles in gilt to spine. Externally lovely. Tidemark to frontispiece, slightly affecting the illustration. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.
Verlag: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC, 2015
ISBN 10: 1346742332ISBN 13: 9781346742335
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2015
ISBN 10: 1331487528ISBN 13: 9781331487524
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 258.
Anbieter: Moby Dick, Noordwijk, Niederlande
J. Johnson, London, 1792,248 pp., not ill., nice half-leather binding, Once alerted to the pityful plight of people confined to prison for debts, John Howard knew no bounds and travelled the length and breadth of Europe to document and more importantly to improve the circumstances in every prison he could find. Far from home, in Kherson, Ukraine, he met his end, falling victim "to the same putrid fever which he had banished from so many prisons". Mrs. Mary Guthrie, who visited his grave and monument some years after, noticed the irony, and continued: "Happy would it be for the world, if British eccentricity often took so useful a turn!" (code N-44).
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2015
ISBN 10: 1331423252ISBN 13: 9781331423256
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 480.
Verlag: J. Johnson, 1792., London:, 1792
Anbieter: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Montreux, VAUD, Schweiz
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Small 8vo. 248 pp. Engraved frontis-portrait. Original drab boards, black-stamped spine title, uncut; spine neatly replaced. Ink signature on title-page, notation in same hand on p. 195, "A marble Statue upon a Pedestal with a suitable Inscription has since been erected to his memory in the Cathedral of St. Paul London." J. Pickering [ca. 1795]. Fine. FIRST edition. John Howard (1726-1790), philanthropist and prison reformer. "On 8 Feb 1773 Howard was appointed high sheriff of Bedfordshire. Howard now commenced his career as a prison reformer. In his official capacity the defective arrangements of the prisons and the intolerable distress of the prisoners were brought immediately under his notice. Shocked at discovering that persons who had been declared not guilty, or against whom the grand jury had failed to find a true bill, or even those whose prosecutors had failed to appear, were confined in gaol until certain fees were paid to the gaoler, Howard suggested to the Bedfordshire justices that the gaoler should be paid by a salary in lieu of fees. . . The many abuses which he unearthed determined him to continue his investigations, and he left few of the county gaols unvisited." [DNB] John Aikin M.D. was the son of John Aikin (1713-1780), tutor of the Warrington Academy, which during the twenty-nine years of its existence was the centre of liberal politics and literary taste of the county of Lancashire. "Aikin is better known as a man of letters than as a physician. His elegant scholarship gave a natural polish to all that he wrote, and his varied attainments, as well as his moral uprightness, earned him many friends, among whom where Dr. Priestley; Pennant, the naturalist; Dr. Darwin; James Montgomery; John Howard, the philanthropist; and, for a time, the poet, Southey. He was John Howard's literary executor, and was often employed by him to write reports on prisons, and other documents." [DNB]. Aikin's Life has therefore the advantage of being written by someone who knew Howard well and was very closely associated with his work. Baumgartner 47; BM Readex Vol. 1, p. 271; DNB Vol. I, pp. 186-6; DNB Vol. X, pp. 44-48.