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A new scheme for reducing the laws relating to the poor into one act of Parliament : and for the better providing the impotent poor with necessaries, the industrious with work, and for the correction of idle poor.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poor laws--Great Britain.
- Poor laws.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 29 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Edition:
- The second edition, to which are added reasons for making no other alterations in the poor-law, than what appear absolutely necessary.
- Fingerprint:
- e,it e,by e.nd SePe (3) 1737 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for T. Cooper ..., MDCCXXXVII [1737]
- Notes:
- Signatures: A⁴(-A1) B-D⁴ E1 F⁴(-F4).
- Price from imprint: "Price six pence."
- Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; factotum initials.
- "A reissue of the sheets of the 1736 edition printed by William Bowyer, with a new title page and additions (also printed by Bowyer). Bowyer's records show 750 copies of the additional half-sheet printed." Cf. ESTC.
- Cited in:
- ESTC, T39936
- OCLC:
- 54297203
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