Appendix State Prisons England by Howard John (10 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two parts bound in one volume. 1777-1784. 4to (280 x 204 mm). Part I: [8], 489, [23] pp., 3 folding engraved plates. Part II: [8], 286, [10] pp., 18 engraved plates (15 folding). Includes first blank leaf A1 to part II and half-titles to both parts. Contemporary calf, spine with gilt-lettered label and gilt tooling, marbled endpapers and edges (joints split but cords holding, spine ends chipped, extremities worn). Text of part I very little age-toned, part II a bit more browned and dust soiled at outer blank margins, occasional minor spotting; first half-title and title with light browning to outer margins from binder's glue; plates with binder's direction noted in ink manuscript; light soiling to p.217 of part I; small hole at upper blank margin of plate 15, plate 19 somewhat browned; pp. 466-67 of part I with light offsetting from silk ribbon marker. ---- PMM 224; Garrison-Morton 1598; NLM/ Blake 223; Waller 224; Wellcome III, 306. FIRST EDITION of part I and much enlarged second edition of part II (first 1780 edition with 7 plates only). "From the casual experience of visiting Bedford Gaol - one of the most influential prisons in English history - came Howard's determination to improve prison conditions. His single-handed campaign not only caused a revolution in his lifetime, but is the direct progenitor of subsequent work in the most critical branch of penal reform. Howard, after some early adventures on the continent, might have spent the rest of his life in quiet philanthropy on his paternal estate. However, in 1773 he accepted office as high sheriff of Bedford, and when the assizes were held he insisted on visiting the gaol. The squalor and misery he found made a lasting impression on him; even more did the fact that the gaolers were dependent on the prisoners' fees for their own livelihood and that in consequence many prisoners were wrongly detained because they could not pay the gaol delivery fees. He proposed to the justices that the gaoler should be paid a salary instead, and was told to find a precedent for it. Accordingly he went from county to county, and although he found no precedent he saw enough to determine him to devote himself to prison reform. The following year Howard gave evidence before a committee of the House of Commons, and received its thanks for 'the humanity and zeal which have led him to visit the several gaols of this Kingdom'. Immediately an Act was passed liberating, free of charges, all prisoners against whom no true bill had been found, and providing a salary for gaolers from the county rate. It was followed by another Act providing for improvements to existing gaols arid better care, especially medical care, for prisoners. Howard characteristically had the new regulations printed in large type and sent to every gaoler and warder in the country. Encouraged by this success he then set out on a systematic tour of British and continental prisons. He noticed the comparative absence of crime in the Low Countries and saw the cause in the reformatory treatment there bestowed on criminals. The French authorities tried to prevent his access to their prisons, but he was able to circumvent them and published the results of his inspection. This and the report of his expedition as a whole formed part of The State of Prisons, the first major practical work on the subject . . . Howard's enthusiasm was remarkable not only in its immediate effectiveness, but also in the universal affection which he inspired. His cause found permanent support, and is commemorated in a body of which he would have been proud to acknowledge the foundation, the Howard League for Penal Reform" (PMM 224) - Visit our website to see more images!

Hard Cover. Condition: very good. Quarto. Two Volume set. Volume 1 is a first edition with Three folding plates.Volume 2 was published in 1784 and is a second edition. 18 leaves of plates as called for but numbered up to 22. Both volumes bound in full leather with professionally rebacked spines. Leather title labels to spine. Gilt design to spines. Some age-toning at edges of endpapers. Bindings is tight. Ties. Both volumes in very nice condition. Volume 1 is in PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN (224). This is the first major practical work on the subject and a n influential work on prison reform Thereafter Howard devoted himself to study and the prevention of gaol fever, of which he contracted the disease himself in the Crimea where he died of it in 1790. First Edition and Second edition respectively.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. 2 volumes, large 4to., [viii, 508pp.] + [iv, 296pp.], half-titles present, illustrated with 39 finely engraved plates, many folding, (complete), some occasional old light waterstains to some leaves of Appendix volume, both volumes bound in later matching buckram with spines titled in gilt. A generally VG clean, large copy set of this scarce work, complete with the Appendix, which is usually lacking. (Printing and the Mind of Man, 224; Garrison and Morton 1598; Goldsmiths' 11625). John Howard (1726-90) - A philanthropist and social reformer, Howard was dedicated to prison reform and public health improvements. John Howard was born in Hackney, in east London in 1726, the son of a partner in an upholstery business. On his father's death in 1742, he inherited considerable wealth and settled on an estate in Bedfordshire. In 1773, he was appointed high sheriff of Bedfordshire and supervision of the county jail became of one his responsibilities. He was shocked by the conditions he found there and visited others in England, where the situation was no better. Jailers were not salaried but lived off fees paid by prisoners for food, bedding and other facilities. This system meant that poorer prisoners lived in terrible conditions. Many jailers demanded payment before prisoners were released, meaning that some stayed in jail even if they were innocent or had served their sentences. Howard's concerns led to two 1774 parliamentary acts - one abolished jailers' fees, the other enforced improvements in the system leading to better prisoner health. Howard, however, felt that the acts were not strictly obeyed. In 1775, he embarked on a tour of prisons in Europe visiting Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland, Flanders, some German states and Switzerland. He travelled on a similar route two years later, and in 1781 added Denmark, Sweden and Russia to the list. He visited Spain and Portugal in 1782. At a time when travel was uncomfortable and frequently dangerous, he travelled nearly 80,000 kilometres, making seven major journeys between 1775 and 1790, the first two of which are described in his book 'The State of Prisons in England and Wales. and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons'. While examining Russian military hospitals, Howard contracted typhus in Kherson, Ukraine, and died there on 20 January 1790. In 1866, the Howard League for Penal Reform was founded in his honour.

First edition of Howard's pioneering work on prisons and penal reform, "the first major practical work on the subject" (PMM), here bound with the 1780 Appendix in a particularly attractive contemporary binding from the library of James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater and 4th Earl of Seafield (1750-1811), with his bookplate to the front pastedown. "From the casual experience of visiting Bedford Gaol. came Howard's determination to improve prison conditions. His single-handed campaign not only caused a revolution in his lifetime, but is the direct progenitor of subsequent work in the most critical branch of penal reform. encouraged by this success he then set out on a systematic tour of British and continental prisons. He noticed the comparative absence of crime in the Low Countries and saw the cause in the reformatory treatment there bestowed on criminals. The French authorities tried to prevent his access to their prisons, but he was able to circumvent them and published the results of his inspection. This and the report of his expedition as a whole formed part of The State of Prisons" (ibid.). The book's impact was instantaneous, with a bill passed establishing two penitentiaries on the lines of those Howard had seen in the Low Countries and recommended. Further journeys led to the Appendix of 1780, here bound in, and a further appendix in 1784, not present here most likely as the book had already been bound. The State of the Prisons in England and Wales joins Cesare Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments as the two great penological works of the 18th century, but whereas Beccaria's treatise was chiefly theoretical, Howard's was primarily practical, intended for immediate application rather than abstract theorizing. The owner of the copy, James Ogilvy, was noted for promoting British landscape garden designs across Europe; his own Cullen House estate (Robert Adam and James Playfair were commissioned to redesign the house) was visited by Boswell and Johnson on their journey to the Hebrides, recorded in Boswell's Journal of the tour: "we saw some part of his domain, which is indeed admirably laid out. Dr Johnson did not choose to walk through it. He always said, that he was not come to Scotland to see fine places, of which there were enough in England; but wild objects - mountains, waterfalls, peculiar manners; in short, things which he had not seen before". ESTC T153060 & T152722; Goldsmiths' 11625; Printing and the Mind of Man 224. Two works bound in a single vol., quarto (269 x 212 mm). 3 folding engraved plates; further 6 folding plates and another non-folding plate in Appendix. Contemporary calf, smooth spine richly gilt with urn and foliate design, red morocco label, gilt Greek key roll-border to covers, gilt serrated cover edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Early shelf mark to front free endpaper verso. Very slight loss at headcap and superficial splitting at head of joints, a few minor marks of abrasion to covers; half-titles present, contents clean and fresh with very slight crease at fore edge, tiny chip with very minor loss to a few letters to Appendix pp. 47/48. A handsome, well-margined copy.

Warrington: William Eyres, 1777. 1st edition (illustrator). First Edition. Warrington: William Eyres, 1777. 1st edition. PMM 224: Remarks on Prisons by a Pathbreaking Reformer Howard, John [1726-1790]. The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, With Preliminary Observations, And an Account of Some Foreign Prisons. Warrington: Printed by William Eyres, And Sold by T. Cadell in the Strand, And N. Conant in Fleet Street, London, 1777. [viii], 489, [23] pp. 3 folding copperplates. Complete. [Bound with] Howard, John. Appendix to The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, &c. Containing a Farther Account of Foreign Prisons and Hospitals, With Additional Remarks on the Prisons of This Country. Warrington: Printed by William Eyres, 1784. [vi], 286, [10] pp. 18 copperplates, 16 folding. Complete. Quarto (10-3/4" x 8-1/4"; 27.3 x 21 cm). Recent three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt title and gilt publication date to spine, endpapers renewed, speckled edges. Light rubbing to boards and extremities, a few minor scratches to spine, wear to corners of text block. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing in places, creases to a few leaves, light soiling, minor edgewear and tears to plates, faint offsetting from plates to other sections of plates and adjacent leaves. $1,250. * State: first edition; Appendix, second and final edition. After being shocked by the conditions of his county prison as high sheriff, Howard dedicated himself to touring hundreds of prisons in Great Britain and Western Europe. He reported his findings in the State of the Prisons, which was to quote Printing and the Mind of Man, "the first major practical work on the subject." A vivid synthesis of factual data and moral outrage, it called for drastic improvements in the housing, cleanliness and care of prisoners. Within a year of its publication it inspired a bill that established two prisons with plans based on Howard's recommendations. Later editions were published in 1780, 1784 and 1792. The first edition of the Appendix was published in 1780. Printing and the Mind of Man 224. English Short-Title Catalogue T153060, N16324.

First edition of Howard's pioneering work on prisons and penal reform, "the first major practical work on the subject" (PMM), with the 1780 Appendix; the copy of the penal reformer Edward Harbord, 3rd Baron Suffield (1781-1835), with his bookplate to the front pastedowns and his devices to the spines. Harbord was MP for Great Yarmouth from 1806 to 1812, re-entering parliament in 1820 for Shaftesbury. In this second term Harbord "was assiduous, directing his efforts to prison reform, serving on a House of Commons select committee on the subject and publishing a pamphlet on the conditions in Norfolk county gaol, and poor relief" (ODNB). In 1821 he entered the Lords, where his main activity was to promote the cause of the abolition of slavery. The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, based on hundreds of visits by the author to English and foreign prisons, joins Cesare Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments as the two great penological works of the 18th century. Whereas Beccaria's treatise was chiefly theoretical, Howard's was primarily practical, intended for immediate application rather than abstract theorizing. The book's impact was instantaneous, with a bill passed establishing two penitentiaries on the lines of those Howard recommended. ESTC T153060 & T152722; Goldsmiths' 11625; Printing and the Mind of Man 224. Two works in 2 vols, quarto (276 x 209 mm). 3 folding engraved plates in first vol.; 7 folding plates in Appendix. Early 19th-century calf, green and calf labels, spines gilt in compartments with heraldic motifs, yellow edges. Joints and extremities neatly restored, light offsetting from plates and slight toning to Appendix else contents clean and crisp, an excellent copy.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1780. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: : - 248, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 248 248.