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HOWARD (John) - État des prisons, des hôpitaux et des maisons de force - Paris; Lagrange, 1788 - 2 volumes In-8° - 1 marginal stain in the 1st volume, yellowed leaves - Portrait of the author in frontispiece and 22 plates out of text, mostly folding - Binding of the period in fawn basane (some spotting on the boards) - Double fillet - Spines smoothly decorated - Title and tomato parts in fawn morocco - Red edges - Original French edition of The State of the Prisons in England and Wales [...Appendix to the State of the prisons [...] containing a farther account of Foreign Prisons and Hospitals - Howard's main work constituting a vast survey, carried out by the famous philanthropist, in the United Kingdom and in various European countries, on a widely debated question. Despite the obstacles put up by the French government, Howard managed to visit the prisons of Lyon and Bordeaux, as well as the Bastille in Paris. He drew up a rather gloomy and critical report on the poor conditions of incarceration in European prisons. "Inhuman abuses made me write this book; it is to the pity that the prisoners inspired in me that we owe it. Elected sheriff of Bedfort County, I have seen these abuses at close quarters..." Reference: Brunet, III, 352
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HOWARD (John) - État des prisons, des hôpitaux et des maisons de force - Paris; Lagrange, 1788 - 2 volumes In-8° - 1 marginal stain in the 1st volume, yellowed leaves - Portrait of the author in frontispiece and 22 plates out of text, mostly folding - Binding of the period in fawn basane (some spotting on the boards) - Double fillet - Spines smoothly decorated - Title and tomato parts in fawn morocco - Red edges - Original French edition of The State of the Prisons in England and Wales [...Appendix to the State of the prisons [...] containing a farther account of Foreign Prisons and Hospitals - Howard's main work constituting a vast survey, carried out by the famous philanthropist, in the United Kingdom and in various European countries, on a widely debated question. Despite the obstacles put up by the French government, Howard managed to visit the prisons of Lyon and Bordeaux, as well as the Bastille in Paris. He drew up a rather gloomy and critical report on the poor conditions of incarceration in European prisons. "Inhuman abuses made me write this book; it is to the pity that the prisoners inspired in me that we owe it. Elected sheriff of Bedfort County, I have seen these abuses at close quarters..." Reference: Brunet, III, 352
