PRISON REFORM

An Inquiry, whether Crime and Misery are produced or prevented, by our present System of Prison Discipline … Third Edition.

London, [J. M’Creery] for John & Arthur Arch, J. Butterworth & Son, and John Hatchard, 1818.

12mo, pp. viii, 146, [2 (advertisements)]; with half-title; a few very slight spots, but a very good, uncut copy; in contemporary drab boards with blue paper sides, printed label to spine (chipped); a little bumped with a few small chips to spine, two small stains to front board; contemporary ink ownership inscription and printed booklabel of ‘E. Lloyd, Esq., Rhagatt, Corwen, N. W.’ to front pastedown.

£195

Approximately:
US $242€233

Add to basket Make an enquiry

Added to your basket:
An Inquiry, whether Crime and Misery are produced or prevented, by our present System of Prison Discipline … Third Edition.

Checkout now

Third edition, published the same year as the first, of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton’s influential Inquiry into the British prison system.

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786–1845) was a philanthropist and politician particularly noted for his committed abolitionism and lifelong humanitarian campaign for prison reform. His first major work, the Inquiry contrasts his experience on several visits to Newgate Prison with the progressive carceral system of contemporary Belgium. It was enormously successful, being praised in Parliament by Sir James Mackintosh, translated into French, and undergoing five editions in 1818 alone; it led to the establishment of the Society for the Reformation of Prison Discipline, an enquiry into the state of Madras gaols, and Buxton was elected as Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis later the same year.

Provenance: Edward Lloyd (1788–1859), of Rhagatt Hall, Corwen, North Wales.

You may also be interested in...