Lot 67
Hanway (Jonas) Serious Considerations on the Salutary Design of the Act of Parliament for a Regular, Uniform Register of the Parish-Poor, first edition, 1762.
Hammer Price: £750
Description
Hanway (Jonas) Serious Considerations on the Salutary Design of the Act of Parliament for a Regular, Uniform Register of the Parish-Poor in all the Parishes within the Bills of Mortality...To which are added, some thoughts on the Usefulness of Ventilation; the pernicious Effects of bad Air, narrow Streets, and ruined Houses; the Advantages of Cleanliness and decent Cloathing..., first edition, engraved title vignette, modern calf with decorative border in blind, black morocco label, [Goldsmiths 9802; Kress 6026], 8vo, for John Rivington, 1762.
⁂ Among the scarcest of all Hanway's published works. The proposed register of "all the infant parish poor within the Bills of Mortality, as far as four years of age" is particularly interesting.
Rare in commerce; we have been able to trace only this copy at auction, in these rooms in 2021.
Description
Hanway (Jonas) Serious Considerations on the Salutary Design of the Act of Parliament for a Regular, Uniform Register of the Parish-Poor in all the Parishes within the Bills of Mortality...To which are added, some thoughts on the Usefulness of Ventilation; the pernicious Effects of bad Air, narrow Streets, and ruined Houses; the Advantages of Cleanliness and decent Cloathing..., first edition, engraved title vignette, modern calf with decorative border in blind, black morocco label, [Goldsmiths 9802; Kress 6026], 8vo, for John Rivington, 1762.
⁂ Among the scarcest of all Hanway's published works. The proposed register of "all the infant parish poor within the Bills of Mortality, as far as four years of age" is particularly interesting.
Rare in commerce; we have been able to trace only this copy at auction, in these rooms in 2021.
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