A visit to the Philadelphia prison : being an accurate and particular account of the wise and humane administration adopted in every part of the building : containing also an account of the gradual reformation, and present improved state, of the penal laws of Pennsylvania : with observations on the impolicy and injustice of capital punishments : in a letter to a friend / by Robert J. Turnbull ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turnbull, Robert James, 1775-1833, author.

Contributor:

James Phillips & Son, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walnut Street Prison (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Early works to 1800.

Walnut Street Prison (Philadelphia, Pa.).

Criminal law--Pennsylvania--Early works to 1800.

Criminal law.

Capital punishment--Early works to 1800.

Capital punishment.

Pennsylvania.

Genre:

Early works.

Publishers' advertisements.

Physical Description:

[2], ii, 93, [3] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates ; 22 cm

Fingerprint:

s.ld reof hean atbe (3) 1797 (A)

Place of Publication:

[London] : Philadelphia printed, London re-printed and sold by James Phillips & Son, George Yard, Lombard Street, 1797.

Notes:

Originally published in the Charleston daily gazette.

Signatures: pi² A-F⁸.

Folded table (plate).

"Books printed and sold by James Philllips & Son, George Yard, Lombard Street.": Leaf F8r.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy has a few early manuscript underlines in text.

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 from The Lawbook Exchange.

Kislak Center copy: edges untrimmed.

Cited in:

ESTC T50963

OCLC:

1110655024