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].

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Colquhoun, Patrick, 1745-1820, author.

Series:

• Early American imprints. First series ; no. 33538.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Crime--England--London.
• Crime.
• Police.
• England--London.
• Police--England--London.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 342, xxiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf)

Edition:

The first American edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed for Benjamin Davies, numbers 68, High-Street. By Henry Sweitzer, numbers 85, Race-Street, MDCCXCVIII. [1798]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

• Attributed to Patrick Colquhoun in the Dictionary of national biography.
• Edition statement transposed; precedes "By a magistrate ..." on title page.
• Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 33538).

Cited in:

Evans 33538

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