An account of the present state of the prisons and houses of correction in the Oxford circuit : Taken from a late publication of John Howard, Esq. F.R.S. By Permission of the Author. To which is prefixed an introduction stating The Acts lately passed for improving the Prisons in this kingdom. The good Effects which have resulted from those Acts, where they have been carried into Execution. The Abuses which still continue where they have been neglected and The means by which those Abuses may most effectually be corrected.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howard, John, 1726-1790.

Standardized Title:

State of the prisons in England and Wales. Abridgments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospitals--Europe--Early works to 1800.

Hospitals.

Prisons--Europe--Early works to 1800.

Prisons.

Prisons--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([6],xvi,44,7,[1]p. )

Other Title:

Account of the present state of the prisons and houses of correction in the Oxford circuit.

Place of Publication:

London : printed by order of the Society lately instituted for giving effect to His Majesty's proclamation against vice and immorality, [1789]

Notes:

With a half-title bearing on its verso the date.

After p. 44 comes the 'Abstract from the Acts of the 14th and 24th Geo. III.', with separate pagination and register.

Reproduction of original from John Rylands University Library of Manchester.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T164090.

OCLC:

744718562