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An enquiry how far the punishment of death is necessary in Pennsylvania. : With notes and illustrations. / By William Bradford, esq. ; To which is added, an account of the goal and penitentiary house of Philadelphia, and of the interior management thereof. By Caleb Lownes, of Philadelphia.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection HV8699.U6 P4 1795b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bradford, William, 1755-1795.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--Pennsylvania.
- Capital punishment.
- Correctional institutions--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Correctional institutions.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Pennsylvania.
- Genre:
- Booksellers' advertisements -- Great Britain -- 18th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Norris, Isaac (bookplate)
- Norris, Charles, Dr. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 6 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered pages-114 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates ; 22 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Philadelphia printed: London re-printed for J. Johnson, no. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard., 1795.
- Contents:
- An account of the alteration and present state of the penal laws of Pennsylvania / By Caleb Lownes: p. [81]-114.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Philadelphia, 1793.
- Signatures: a4 A8 C-D8 G8 I-L8 (a3 missigned a2).
- Bookseller's advertisement on p. [1] (2nd count).
- Cited in:
- Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, 3:3707.
- Sabin 7265.
- Contains:
- Lownes, Caleb. Account of the alteration and present state of the penal laws of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 22720344
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