London : Printed for W. Owen, at Homer’s Head, in Fleet-street 1754-55. First Edition London : Printed for D. Browne, sen. & jun. W. Mears, F. Clay; Fletcher Gyles; and T. Osborne, 1727. Second Edition Warrington: Printed by William Eyres: and sold by T. Cadell, J. Johnson. and C. Dilly in London. 1784. Third Edition
A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; Comprehending All The Branches of Useful Knowledge, with Accurate Descriptions as well of the various Machines, Instruments, Tools.... Uses of Natural Productions, whether Animals, Vegetables, Minerals... Together with The Kingdoms, Provinces, Cities, Towns.... with above Three Hundred Copper-Plates... engraved by Mr. Jefferys... Vol. 1 (2,3,4)
4 vols thick 8vo, Vol.1 Frontis, xvi, 830 pp, plates 1-66, Vol.2. title page, pp 831-1842, plates 67-150, Vol.3. title page, pp. 1843-2646, plates 151-225 Vol 4. title page pp.2647-3538, plates 226-302, cont. calf, 2-line fillet borders in gilt, recently stoutly rebacked, morocco labels, new fly-leaves, frontispiece in vol.1 supplied in facsimile, some off-set from leather turn-ins on first and last pages, a sound copy with all 302 copper engraved plates. Book label in gothic type of “F.H.T. Steatfeild” on each front paste-down.---800.jpg?v=1696087386)
The English works of Sir Henry Spelman Kt. published in his life-time; together with his posthumous works, relating to the laws and antiquities of England; and the life of the author. By ... Edmund Lord Bishop of London. To which are added, two more treatises of Sir Henr Spelman, never before printed: ... With a compleat index ...
Folio 2 vcols in 1, engraved portrait, 2 folding tables, title in red and black, (13 lls), xxvi, 190 pp, (91 lls), Title to vol 2 (”Reliquae Spelmannianae”), (7 lls), 256 pp, (12 lls), some foxing in places, old half calf, marbled boards, later endpapers, newly rebacked, engraved armorial bookplate of “ Robert and Cecilia Tubbs” inscription on front fly leaf “F. Stroud Read / Brondesbury Park, August 25 . 1922”
The state of the prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons and Hospital
4to, [A]4, B-Z, Aa-Zz, 3A-3S4, 3T 2+1, complete with 1/2-title and “Directions to the Book-binder”, 22 engraved plates, many folding, contemporary 1/2 roan, marbled bds, some skinning to boards, joints a little tender, head of spine chipped, heraldic ex-libris of Howard Vyse on front paste down, a respectable copy.
Of the first edition [1777], Printing and the Mind of Man says “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.”
ESTC T115096
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