Planning.- Buckingham (James Silk) National Evils and Practical Remedies, with the plan of a Model Town, first edition, folding tinted lithographed frontispiece of bird's eye view of town, with pp.196*-199* "Supplementary Sheet" bound between pp.196 & 197, 4pp. publisher's catalogue and folding plan at end, very lightly browned/soiled at edges, frontispiece shaved at foot with slight loss to caption, original cloth, mostly unopened, rubbed and faded, rebacked preserving most of original spine (faded and with some markings erased), new endpapers, [Goldsmiths' 36656], [1849]; Appeal to the British Nation, on the Greatest Reform yet remaining to be accomplished, 16pp. on the author's travels at end, name in ink at head of title, lacking front free endpaper, stabholes to inner margin, original cloth, spine faded, 1846, 8vo (2)

⁂ The first is the first proposal for a garden city and one which influenced Ebenezer Howard in his own planning ideas. It was to be built of iron with glass-covered walkways and wide streets (to avoid alleys of debauchery), with free medical services, and a ban on all drinking, smoking, gambling and other immoral activities. The second item concerns temperance.