Prisons.- Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Gaol and House of Correction, at Dorchester, 1835, light spotting, modern cloth, Dorchester, [1835] § Symons (Jelinger C.) Tactics for the Times; as regards the Condition and Treatment of the Dangerous Classes, first edition, half-title, tinted lithograph frontispiece,4 hand-coloured lithographed bar charts, 3 folding tables, original blind-stamped cloth, rubbed and faded, rebacked, new endpapers, [Goldsmiths' 36553], 1849 § Hunt (Henry) Investigation at Ilchester Gaol..., first edition, etched frontispiece by George Cruikshank and 5 plates (probably by Robert Cruikshank), with additional portrait of the author mounted & bound in and with both supplementary addresses not always found, foxing and offsetting, later half morocco, uncut, rubbed, [Cohn 421; Goldsmiths' 23262 (but lacking the address to Graham)], 1821 § Campbell (John) Thirty Years' Experience of a Medical Officer in the English Convict Service, first edition, presentation copy from the author inscribed on front free endpaper, 4pp. advertisements at end, original cloth, spine rubbed and faded, 1884; and 4 others on prisons, 8vo (8)

⁂ The first is very rare and not listed by Library Hub although it does include an earlier set of rules of 1824 in the British Library.

Henry Hunt was a radical politician who had been incarcerated in Ilchester gaol for his involvement in the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. He was released in 1822 and brought a series of complaints against the prison particularly the gaoler, William Bridle, instigating an Inquiry into prison conditions.