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A treatise on the police of London : containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors by which public and private property and security are, at present, injured and endangered : and suggesting remedies for their prevention / By a magistrate acting for the counties of Middlesex, Surry, Kent, and Essex. --For the City and Liberty of Westminster --and for the Liberty of the Tower of London ; [Five lines of Latin quotation]
Library at the Katz Center - Archives Room HV8198.L7 C6 1798
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1798 Colquho
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Colquhoun, Patrick, 1745-1820.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime--England--London.
- Crime.
- Police.
- England--London.
- Police--England--London.
- London (England)--Police.
- London (England).
- Penn Provenance:
- Philadelphia Society for alleviating the miseries of public prisons (bookplate) (RBC copy 1)
- Philadelphia. Athenaeum (inscription) (RBC copy 2)
- Smith, R.C. (autograph)(RBC copy 2)
- Sellin, Johan Thorsten (donor) (autograph, 1937)(RBC cop.3)
- Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)
- Kaplan, Deanne (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 342, xxiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf ; 22 cm (8vo)
- Edition:
- The first American edition.
- Fingerprint:
- ute- r-e, here inch (3) 1798 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed for Benjamin Davies, no. 68, High-Street. By Henry Sweitzer, no. 85, Race-Street, MDCCXCVIII. [1798]
- Notes:
- Attributed to Patrick Colquhoun in the Dictionary of national biography.
- Edition statement transposed; precedes "By a magistrate ..." on title page.
- Signatures: [A]4 *B4 *C2 B-3A4 (3A4 blank).
- Local Notes:
- RBC Copy 1-2 imperfect: p. [1]-[2] (blank) at end wanting.
- Kaplan Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan.
- Athenaeum copy: Copy 1: ms. sales receipt (J. Fisher to Wm. Cobbett) laid in.
- Athenaeum copy: Copy 2: Curwen gift.
- Kaplan Collection copy collectify accession no. 2006.12.26.00865
- Cited in:
- Evans 33538
- OCLC:
- 4612615
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