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Published by MAJESTY HOUSE, 2012
ISBN 10: 0979990300ISBN 13: 9780979990304
Seller: Seattle Goodwill, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
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Published by Majesty House, 2012
ISBN 10: 0979990327ISBN 13: 9780979990328
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Published by London : Printed for his Majesty's Stationery Office and sold at Hertford House, 1933
Seller: PRISCA, Paris, France
First Edition
Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Edition originale. Grand In-8° broché, 165 pages + 38 planches.
Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office /1960, second impression; softcover with opened dolls' house on front cover, 7.25x4.75; np., London, 1965
Seller: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.
CONDITION: Very Good; no names or other marks, toned with bumped bottom corner. Toploader medium, softcover. Published by the museum with a 3 page introduction by C. M. B. and 28 black and white photos of the interiors and exteriors of houses and two butcher shops. With the exception of Queen Mary's dolls' house at Windsor, all are in the Bethnal Green Museum. ABE Heritage Seller, since 1996: Search ABE Keyword: oldchildrensbooks. Conservative AB condition grading, secure packing, international shipping.
Published by Her Majesty's Stationery House, London, 1966
Seller: Burke's Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by the author. Minimal Cover Wear. Signed by Author(s). Book.
Published by Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office and Sold at Hertford House, London, 1933
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft Cover. Condition: Poor. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full green paperback with black lettering on the front cover and spine, front cover half off with an inch chip to the bottom, spine is separating, bottom of spine bumped, numerous black & white illustrations (38 plates) in the rear, map of build in front. 165pp. Overall a READING COPY only. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.
Published by Majesty House, 2015
ISBN 10: 0979990343ISBN 13: 9780979990342
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.
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Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, York House, Kngsway, London, WC2, 1971
ISBN 10: 0116701609ISBN 13: 9780116701602
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Illustrated with a small number of b/w photographs and a folded map to the rear. (illustrator). Ninth impression with amendments of 1952 Second Edition. Illustrated 15 p. net stapled edition. Tightly bound, clean with no writing inside. Some handling wear with creasing to top cover corner and a little rubbing to spine hinge.
Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, Herford House. London. 1924., 1924
Seller: Antiquariat Das Bücherdepot, Vienna, VIENN, Austria
OBrosch., 8°, (VIII) 202 S. mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Zustand sehr gut.
Published by London, Printed for his majesty s stationery office and sold at Hertford House., ., 1930
Seller: Der ANTIQUAR in LAHR, Werner Engelmann, Lahr, BW, Germany
lots of oictures, 214 pages, orig. Binding, 24 x 15 cm ---with signs of using.
Published by Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, York House, Kingsway, London . London 1940., 1940
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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Hard back binding in publisher's original red cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and the upper panel. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 612 [xii local period advertisements] printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Spine ends and corners soft, rubs to the cloth along the edges, foxing to the page edges and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MOTORING, SPORTS CARS.
Published by Printed by Command of His Majesty King George the Third, in Pursuance of an Address of the House of Commons of Great Britain, 1817
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Condition: Poor. Volume V. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Brown paper on boards. Both covers detached but present. Binding loose. Pages age-toned and some light spots of foxing throughout. Otherwise internally clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,4050grams, ISBN:
Published by Printed by Command of His Majesty King George III. in Pursuance of an Address of The House of Commons of Great Britain, London, 1821
Seller: LOE BOOKS, Launceston, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. pp. [iv] + 511. Contemporary paper-covered boards (detached) with paper covering to spine chipped. Contents clean and tight, single stamp (MOD Library Services Withdrawn from Stock) otherwise contents unmarked. A good clean copy ideally in need of rebinding. Size: Folio (29 x 46cm). Book.
Published by Her Majesty's General Register House, Edinburgh, 1867
Seller: MARK POST, BOOKSELLER, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. First Edition, First printing. Rebound in half-leather and inlaid blue cloth boards with new endpapers. Leather spine label with bright gilt lettering. OVERALL VERY GOOD+. LIGHT WEAR TO CLOTH BOARDS, HEAVIEST AT CORNERS, LEATHER BINDING CLEAN. TIGHT BINDING, STRONG HINGES, CLEAN INTERIOR. OWNER NAMES. 404 pages.
Published by London, printed by his Majesty s stationery office and sold at Hertford House, ., 1928
Seller: Der ANTIQUAR in LAHR, Werner Engelmann, Lahr, BW, Germany
illustr., XXXVI, 413 pages, cased binding with signs of using.
Published by The House of Commons, by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, by Eyre and Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 1897
Seller: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A Good condition ink-stamped Circular written for the House of Commons by Arthur Godley regarding the desire to reinstate by appeals in this Memorial, the dictates of the Contagious Diseases Acts, enacted first in the 1860s and 1870s and extended throughout the Commonwealth, including to India, but repealed by the British Women's Temperance Association. 13" tall x 8 1/3" wide. Five pages, two leaves, folded twice. Light chipping along edges, two short, closed tears to edges, ink-stamp to top, lightly and evenly toned, else in easily Good condition and all readable. Comprised of a brief communique by Walter S.B. McLaren to the Right Honourable Lord George Hamilton, M.P. and Secretary of State for India, then a shorter one by James Stuart, submitted on behalf of "61,437 Women of the United Kingdom," also addressed to the Right Honourable Lord George Hamilton, M.P., Secretary of State of India. They opposed both the Contagious Diseases Acts (which had already been repealed) but also any legislation which aimed to bring them back on-line, though not perhaps in an intuitive manner. Their appeal was not so much against the misogyny encoded in the Acts, but rather, with the attempts to "regulate immorality," that is, make a Pact with the Devil in allowing and enabling (by regulating) prostitution. The Acts were introduced in England to attempt to regulate "common prostitutes," in order allegedly to reduce the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases within the British army and navy and close kindred. Their inspiration followed long and faulty and misogynist associations of sex and sin and disease and regulation with women and girls, stretching from ancient Hebrews and Grecians and Romans and thenceforward. Applied also to military encampments and to garrison towns and ports, expanding eventually throughout the Commonwealth, India to Australia and to all manner of public spaces. The provisions of the Acts made unlawful, women who were suspected of engaging in prostitution and who failed to register as such with the police in any given locale. They were made to submit to an invasive medical examination allegedly to clear her of infection with an STD. The Act empowered police and ministers, businessmen and tavern-owners, eventually, the right to define who was and who was not a prostitute. If the woman was found to be suffering from a venereal disease, typically either syphilis or gonorrhoea, she would be confined to a "lock hospital" until pronounced "clean," that is, putatively uninfected. The only alternative for such a woman hemmed in so was to agree to three months' imprisonment (extended to six months in the 1869 Act) or ditto, at hard labor. The Acts did not enforce the examination of men, nor were men ever considered vectors of infection as such. The unjust nature of the Act and its unequal application evoked outrage among the British public and Christian societies. It was eventually repealed through the efforts of Josephine Butler and others, she having founded the Ladies' National Association (L.N.A.) to campaign against the implementation of the Act. This broadside is a perfect exemplar of all that was inspired by and wrong with the Act (and some forms of opposition to it).Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
Published by Majesty's stationery office an sold at hertford House 1928-01-01, 1928
Seller: MULTI BOOK, Cerreto Laziale, RM, Italy
Condition: Buono (Good). Coperta danneggiata e con piccole parti mancanti su tutto il bordo e sul dorso . Interno in buone condizioni. B085RRN633 Buono (Good) .
Published by Her Majesty's General Register House, 1867
Seller: Voltaire and Rousseau Bookshop, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. (II5) some wear to the blue boards; rubbing onto the spine and has been repaired at the top; gilt titles on spine; previous owner sticker on fep and signature on ffep; darkened fore edges; throughout clean; photographs upon request.
Published by ancks Brothers (London), cardmakers to Her Majesty and to the Principal Club-Houses, 20 Piccadilly, 1863
Seller: Best Books And Antiques, Chandler, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Extremely rare 1863 edition published by Bancks Brothers (London), cardmakers to Her Majesty and to the Principal Club-Houses, 20 Piccadilly. Fifth Edition. Small 5 x 6 inch. Brown embossed leather like cover. Top of spine is gouged. Has the original book store sticker from Serendip Books in Lyme England. Printed by Adams and Gne (London). Some browning of pages, but overall very good condition and age appropriate. (BR) Box 322.
Published by Printed for his Majesty's Stationery Office and sold at HERTFORD HOUSE, LONDON, 1920
Seller: Stampe Antiche e Libri d'Arte BOTTIGELLA, VIGEVANO, PV, Italy
Vol. in -8 (16 x 24 cm.), legatura editoriale telata col. ocra con stemma e titoli incisi in oro sul piatto e al dorso, testo in inglese, pp. XXXII, 408 con 380 illustr. in nero nel testo. Leggeri segni d'uso ma nel complesso in buone condizioni. FOURTEENTH EDITION.
Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, for The House of Commons, 1869
Seller: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. An indispensable guide for the student or historian of English history and especially medical legislation and social history as regards the prostitution of women and putative vice and immorality. This meeting, held on May 13, 1869, so ordered that a committee of 21 distinguished English gentlemen comprise a committee, to wit: Mr. Childers, Sir John Pakington, Captain Vivian, Marquis of Hamilton, Mr. Donald Dalrymple (Bath), Mr. Percy Wyndham, Mr. Kinnaird, Mr. Collins, Sir John Simeon, Mr. James Lowther (York), Mr. Rathbone, Lord Eustace Cecil, Lord Charles Bruce, Sir James Elphinstone, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Tipping, Dr. Brewer, Mr. Mills, Captain Grosvenor, Sir John Trelawny and Mor. Mitford. Bound in tall, folio format measuring 13" x 8 1/2" tall and wide, respectively, in stiff blue card stock wraps, with printed paper label to front cover. Overall Very Good condition, published in London: House of Lords, ordered to be printed in July, 1869. Light, uniform toning to pages, moreso along edges, else clean and unmarked. The Contagious Diseases Acts ("Contagious" being a transparent euphemism for "Venereal") were passed by the British Parliament in 1864, 1867, and 1869, initially and ostensibly so as to address concern regarding the high levels of venereal disease in the armed forces, specifically the British Army and Navy, throughout the 1860s. In 1862 a committee was established to inquire into venereal disease in the British military, and on its recommendation the first Contagious Diseases Act was passed in 1864. The Act was specifically aimed at keeping down the levels of venereal disease in the armed forces by allowing plain-clothed police to "identify" (actually, to inscribe) "prostitutes" (or women dubbed as such) who were putatively infected with gonorrhoea or syphilis. The Act was enforced initially within eleven specified garrison and port towns. Included n initially were Portsmouth, Devonport, Sheerness, Woolwich, WIndsor, Shorncliff, Winchester, Dover, Canterbury, Maidstone, Cork, Curragh, Chatham, and Aldershot. The women and girls, if they failed to register themselves to the police, were required to undergo mandatory medical examination and treatment until thought uninfected if not cured. They could opt out by confinement in a Lock Hospital or be put to forced labor for up to three months, then extended to six and eventually 12 months. Like Catholic priests in the priesthood, British soldiers were discouraged from both homosexual contact and heterosexual marriage, and so various labor forms of prostitution were considered a necessary evil. No males were examined or surveilled upon or registered or incarcerated, one of many points of contention in multiple campaigns led to repeal the Acts. The Acts were extended eventually to the north of England, then to the civilian population, then throughout the Commonwealth, India to Malta, Canada to Australia. Most essentially, any woman who lived in, worked in, or passed through poor, surveilled upon areas were subject to arrest and compulsory medical examination on the suspicion of being a prostitute. Many women detained were not prostituted but were compelled anyway to undergo medical examination by police doctors and others. Included here are great, heaping cart-loads of empirical data regarding dates and places and numbers of women so surveilled upon, treated in plentiful Appendixes. Then a separate Appendix to the entire report. [1], ii-xiv + 126 pp. together with separately printed Index ("Index to the Report from the Select Committee on Contagious Diseases Act") of another 26 pp., alphabetical, thus remarks about, for example, the Age of prostitutes, one of the garrison towns where the Acts were enforced, Aldershot, the Amount of Venereal Disease, the location of Brothels, locales such as Chatham, Cork, and Dover, Liverpool, also Lock Hospitals, and the like, Methodists, Soldiers--you name it. An uber-important guide to English history.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
Published by London. His Majesty's Stationery Office, Herford House 1924, 1931., 1924
Seller: ANTIQUARIAT Franke BRUDDENBOOKS, Lübeck, Germany
Book
Gr.-8° , Condition: Gut. 202, 238 S. + Tafeln grüner Ledereinband mit goldenem Rückentitel, Einband an den Kanten leicht berieben, innen sauber und gut erhalten, gutes Sammlerstück Wir senden umgehend mit beiliegender MwSt.Rechnung. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1325.
Published by House of Commons, by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1881
Seller: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An uncommonly handsome exemplar of a scarce item, a comprehensive addition to the suite of volumes published for the Queen about the enactment and enforcement of the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866 and 1869. This tall, heavy volume comprises the 1881 report, and measures 13" x 8 1/2" tall and wide, respectively. Overall Very Good copy; deaccessioned from the Public Record Office but with few signs thereof (its armorial bookplate inside front flap, an accession number stamped at spine bottom, ink-stamp at p. ii recto first page of report, blank check-out form pasted inside rear flap). Embossed stamp of the Leeds Public Libraries beginning on title page, dissipating at p. 3). Dealer ink-stamp inside rear flap at bottom from an English bookshop in 1940. Bound in brown cloth over boards, decorated, new endpapers, with gilt top-stained rubbed to brown, then fore-edge and bottom-edge stained in red. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, London, printed for them probably by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1881. On the 28th day of July the House of Lords held a meeting and present were The Right Hon. William Nathaniel Massey in the Chair and then The Right Hon. Viscount Crichtone, Colonel Alexander, Mr. Cobbold, Mr. Henry Drummond Wolff, William Fowler, Mr. Osborne Morgan, Mr. Stansfield and Colonel Digby. Each month thereafter the committee sat again and with a rotating, revolving make-up. The term "contagious disease" was a Victorian euphemism for sexually transmitted diseases for which contemporary society held female prostitutes and their evil ways solely responsible. These Reports examine many aspects of the Victorian underworld, revealing hypocritical attitudes towards women and their exploitation in the sex industry of the time. The Acts were introduced in England to attempt to regulate "common prostitutes," in order allegedly to reduce the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases within the British army and navy and close kindred. Their inspiration followed long and faulty and misogynist associations of sex and sin and disease and regulation with women and girls, stretching from ancient Hebrews and Grecians and Romans and thenceforward. Applied also to military encampments and to garrison towns and ports, expanding eventually throughout the Commonwealth, India to Australia and to all manner of public spaces. The provisions of the Acts made unlawful, women who were suspected of engaging in prostitution and who failed to register as such with the police in any given locale. They were made to submit to an invasive medical examination allegedly to clear her of infection with an STD. The Act empowered police and ministers, businessmen and tavern-owners, eventually, the right to define who was and who was not a prostitute. If the woman was found to be suffering from a venereal disease, typically either syphilis or gonorrhoea, she would be confined to a "lock hospital" until pronounced "clean," that is, putatively uninfected. The only alternative for such a woman hemmed in so was to agree to three months' imprisonment (extended to six months in the 1869 Act) or ditto, at hard labor. The Acts did not enforce the examination of men, nor were men ever considered vectors of infection as such. The unjust nature of the Act and its unequal application evoked outrage among the British public and Christian societies. It was eventually repealed through the efforts of Josephine Butler and others, she having founded the Ladies' National Association (L.N.A.) to campaign against the implementation of the Act. This volume (Minutes of Evidence), with City of Leeds Library bookplate pasted over the older bookplate and with new endpapers (decorated) and library reinforcing tape. [i], ii-xiv of prelims, then 1-583 pp. then, bound in are two additional reports, one having to do with property of the House of Lords (another embossed stamp there; [i], ii-vi [i] pp.); the other, with coroners in Ireland ([i], ii-v pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
Published by Record Commission - Printed by Command of his Majesty King George III. (House of Commons), GB, 1811
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Volumes 1-2 (1811), 3 (1816). 460 x 290 mm. Contemporary half leather. A rather worn set with SOME NOTICEABLE DAMP STAINING to first 100 or so pages of Voulme 2 (of which front cover is detached). Just a poor working set. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY (GB 2021 £12) Packed weight 11,000g. NOT AVAILABLE OVERSEAS.
Published by Record Commission - Printed by Command of his Majesty King George III. (House of Commons), GB, 1811
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Presented to "The Subscription Library, Warrington" in 1834. With some old stamps of "Warrington Museum and Library" in text. Bound (without original covers) for Warrington Museum (their armorial plate on front pastedown). Very smart half leather and marbled boards. Spine a bit worn with shelf number at base. Very clean tight text with some spotting. Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY (GB 2023 £8) Packed weight 3800g.
Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, for the House of Commons, 1879
Seller: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. An indispensable guide for the student or historian of English history and especially medical legislation and social history as regards the prostitution of women and putative vice and immorality. Bound in tall, folio format measuring 13" x 8 3/8" tall and wide, respectively, in stiff blue card stock wraps, with printed paper label to front cover, remaining unabraded. Overall Very Good condition, published in London: House of Lords, ordered to be printed in 30 July, 1879. Light, uniform toning to pages, moreso along edges, else clean and unmarked. The Contagious Diseases Acts ("Contagious" being a transparent euphemism for "Venereal") were passed by the British Parliament in 1864, 1867, and 1869, initially and ostensibly so as to address concern regarding the high levels of venereal disease in the armed forces, specifically the British Army and Navy, throughout the 1860s. In 1862 a committee was established to inquire into venereal disease in the British military, and on its recommendation the first Contagious Diseases Act was passed in 1864. The Act was specifically aimed at keeping down the levels of venereal disease in the armed forces by allowing plain-clothed police to "identify" (actually, to inscribe) "prostitutes" (or women dubbed as such) who were putatively infected with gonorrhoea or syphilis. The Act was enforced initially within eleven specified garrison and port towns. Included n initially were Portsmouth, Devonport, Sheerness, Woolwich, Windsor, Shorncliff, Winchester, Dover, Canterbury, Maidstone, Cork, Curragh, Chatham, and Aldershot. The women and girls, if they failed to register themselves to the police, were required to undergo mandatory medical examination and treatment until thought uninfected if not cured. They could opt out by confinement in a Lock Hospital or be put to forced labor for up to three months, then extended to six and eventually 12 months. Like Catholic priests in the priesthood, British soldiers were discouraged from both homosexual contact and heterosexual marriage, and so various labor forms of prostitution were considered a necessary evil. No males were examined or surveilled upon or registered or incarcerated, one of many points of contention in multiple campaigns led to repeal the Acts. The Acts were extended eventually to the north of England, then to the civilian population, then throughout the Commonwealth, India to Malta, Canada to Australia. Most essentially, any woman who lived in, worked in, or passed through poor, surveilled upon areas were subject to arrest and compulsory medical examination on the suspicion of being a prostitute. Many women detained were not prostituted but were compelled anyway to undergo medical examination by police doctors and others. Included here are great, heaping cart-loads of empirical data regarding dates and places and numbers of women so surveilled upon, treated in plentiful Appendixes. Then a separate Appendix to the entire report. [iii], iv-viii + 213 pp. (plus stamp from Public Record Office) the final 33 pp. of which consist of a one-page "Analysis" of and then the alphabetically arranged Index of all of the topics covered in multiple reports, thus remarks about, for example, the Age of prostitutes, one of the garrison towns where the Acts were enforced, Aldershot, the Amount of Venereal Disease, the location of Brothels, locales such as Chatham, Cork, and Dover, Liverpool, also Lock Hospitals, and the like, Methodists, Soldiers--you name it.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
Published by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswood, Printers for the Queen, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, for the House of Commons, 1871
Seller: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Half-title continues: "Parliament--Reports from Commissioners twenty-three Volume 6: Contagious Diseases, Session 9 February - 21 August 1871, Vol. XIX." Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. An uncommonly handsome looking and structurally sound exemplar of the suite of volumes published for the English Queen Victoria about the enactment and enforcement of the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866 and 1869. This volume (published in 1871) is bound in folio format, a very good copy from the Public Record Office (its armorial bookplate inside front flap) bound in full red cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering and ruling to spine, quite fine. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, London, printed for them by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1871. Not many government documents have burnished fore-edges and gilt top edges! On the 28th day of the set of committee hearings for the Committee, the House of Lords held a meeting on the 18th of March 1871, and present were The Right Hon. William Nathaniel Massey in the Chair and then The Right Hon. Viscount Hardinge, The Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, The RIght Hon. W. Cowper-Temple, Sir J.S. Trelawny, Admiral Collinson, Major O'Reilly, P. Rylands, A.J. Mundella, The Rev. Canon Gregory, The Rev. Dr. Hannah, T. Holmes, Holmes Coote, G.W. Hastings and Mr. R. Applegarth. The star of the hearing, however, was Josephine Butler (pp. 437 - 450) and J. S. Mill (pp. 728-735) each of whom gave considerable evidence and were grilled most fulsomely. Mill objected to the legislation and its enactment and enforcement "because it appears to me to be opposed to one of the greatest principles of legislation, the security of personal liberty [duh!]. It appears to me that legislation of this sort takes away that security almost entirely from a particular class of women intentionally, but incidentally and unintentionally, one may say, from all women whatsoever, inasmuch as it enables a woman to be apprehended by the police on suspicion and taken before a magistrate, and then by that magistrate she is liable to be confined for a term of imprisonment which may I believe amount to six months, for refusing to sign a declaration consenting to be examined . . . " Butler's opposition was wholly opposite, and that is, she argued that by enforcing the legislation it was positively sanctioning vice (prostitution) no matter the ostensible aim was to cut down on venereal disease by regulation prostitution. The term "contagious disease" was a Victorian euphemism for sexually transmitted diseases for which contemporary society held female prostitutes and their evil ways solely responsible. These Reports examine many aspects of the Victorian underworld, revealing hypocritical attitudes towards women and their exploitation in the sex industry of the time. The Acts were introduced in England to attempt to regulate "common prostitutes," in order allegedly to reduce the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases within the British army and navy and close kindred. Their inspiration followed long and faulty and misogynist associations of sex and sin and disease and regulation with women and girls, stretching from ancient Hebrews and Grecians and Romans and thenceforward. Applied also to military encampments and to garrison towns and ports, expanding eventually throughout the Commonwealth, India to Australia and to all manner of public spaces. The provisions of the Acts made unlawful, women who were suspected of engaging in prostitution and who failed to register as such with the police in any given locale. They were made to submit to an invasive medical examination allegedly to clear her of infection with an STD. The Act empowered police and ministers, businessmen and tavern-owners, eventually, the right to define who was and who was not a prostitute. If the woman was found to be suffering from a venereal disease, typically either syphilis or gonorrhoea, she would be confined to a "lock hospital" until pronounced "clean," that is, putatively uninfected. The only alternative for such a woman hemmed in so was to agree to three months' imprisonment (extended to six months in the 1869 Act) or ditto, at hard labor. The Acts did not enforce the examination of men, nor were men ever considered vectors of infection as such. The unjust nature of the Act and its unequal application evoked outrage among the British public and Christian societies. It was eventually repealed through the efforts of Josephine Butler and others, she having founded the Ladies' National Association (L.N.A.) to campaign against the implementation of the Act. Appendix A begins on p. 767, Appendix B: Army and Navy and Police Returns, Appendix C: Returns and Other Papers Put in By Witnesses, p. 817, Appendix D: Paper Forwarded From the Home Office; Prelims, 4-846 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
Published by London His Majesty's Stationery Office and sold at Herford House, 1925
Broschur. Papiereinband-Broschur, 184 S., mit Abb., 24,5 x 15,5 cm, Rücken beschädigt, Einband vergilbt, stockfleckig, lichtrandige Seiten, guter Zustand, 1. Aufl. 420 gr.
Published by Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, York House, Kingsway, London . 1934., 1934
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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Signed
6½'' x 8¼''. Single one sided card which would have been legally displayed in a shop where females shop assistants were working. 'Notice is Hereby Given That Seats are Provided in This Shop For Female Shop Assistants Employed in the Serving of Customers, and That These Assistants are Intended To Make Use of the Seats Whenever the Use Thereof Does Not Interfere with Their Work.' Signed by the shop proprietor, 16 Clerkenwell Road, London. Member of the P.B.F.A. ECONOMICS & COMMERCE.