HOWARD, John.
An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe; with various Papers relative to the Plague: together with further Observations on some foreign Prisons and Hospitals; and additional Remarks on the present State of those in Great Britain and Ireland.
Warrington, Eyres, Cadell, Johnson, Dilly and Taylor, 1789.
4to, pp. [vi], 259, [14, index and directions to the binder], [1, blank]; lacking preliminary leaf with Cicero quotation; twenty-two plans and views, mostly folding, and a large folding sheet of statistical tables; spotting to one or two plates, somewhat age-toned, but a good copy, uncut, rebound rather tightly in recent quarter morocco and marbled boards; ownership inscription ‘Alfred C. Meyer, 1922’ to preliminary blank.
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An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe; with various Papers relative to the Plague: together with further Observations on some foreign Prisons and Hospitals; and additional Remarks on the present State of those in Great Britain and Ireland.
First edition of Howard’s study of quarantine hospitals for victims of infectious diseases throughout Europe. This work, illustrated with 22 plans and views of hospitals, was the continuation of Howard’s investigative reporting which had begun when he served as High Sheriff, with his State of the prisons. Both works led to a popular desire for improvement in the construction and discipline of prisons, hospitals, and workhouses.
ESTC T115289.
