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1846103452London 1846. Softcover. very good. 16pp. Folio sewn as issued. Hand stamp on fron wrapper. very good Not in TPL. 1846 paperback
1837103401London 1837. Softcover. good to very good. 114pp. Folio sewn as issued. Some light dust soiling. good to very good TPL 2068. 1837 paperback
1840108407London: T. R. Harrison 1840. Softcover. good. 1st printing. 184pp. Folio in original blue wrappers; soiled and chipped missing top corner front wrapper portions of spine missing. 1840 T. R. Harrison paperback
1815389608London : House of Commons 1815. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in modern gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Minor library marks remain. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 352 pp. Subjects; Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. [London : House of Commons hardcover
1843103363London 1843. Softcover. good to very good. 189pp. Folio original blue wrappers. Corners missing on top and bottom of spine and front cover. Front blank missing large chunk or top corner. good to very good TPL 7686. 1843 paperback
1839103713London 1839. Cloth. good to very good. 451pp. Folio sewn as issued. good to very good Not in TPL. 1839 hardcover
1829473466London : House of Commons 1829. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in a modern library binding of gilt-blocked blue cloth boards. Prelims somewhat foxed with foxing otherwise very sparse and limited to the margins. Lacking title page as bound; minor library marks remain. Text block remains strong clean and well-preserved overall. Series; Accounts and Papers. Great Britain. Parliament. Session 1829. House of Commons ; 274. Physical description; 500 pages ; 33 cm. Notes; Title continues: ""Return to an address to His Majesty dated 23d February 1829;--for a return of the number of charities and charitable donations for the benefit of the poor and other persons in England and Wales.pursuant to an act passed in the fifty-second year of the reign of George the Third intituled ""an act for registering and securing of charitable donations;"" together with a statement of the real and personal estate and of the gross annual income investment and objects of such charities and charitable donations with the names of the founders and also of the person or persons in whose custody possession or control the deeds wills and other instruments whereby such charities and charitable donations were founded or secured; and also the names of the trustee or trustees feoffee or feoffees possessor or possessors of such real or personal estate and of which memorial or statement any duplicate or copy has been transmitted into the Inrolment Office of the High Court of Chancery pursuant to the directions of the said act."" Subjects; Charities. Charitable donations. Poor. England. Wales. Real estate. Personal estate. Annual income. Founders. Trustees. Deeds. Wills. Legal instruments. High Court of Chancery. Parliamentary papers. Official publications. 19th century. [London] : [House of Commons] hardcover
1820389610London : House of Commons 1820. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in modern gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Minor library marks remain. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 160 pp. Subjects; Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. [London : House of Commons hardcover
1854132043London: John Ferres Government Printer 1854. 1st edition. Nice copy. large octavo. wrappers 33pp. ÔIn 1854 when the first census of Victorians was conducted 236798 people lived in the colony. The largest community was English-born with 97943 people followed by the Irish & Scottish communitiesÕ Museum Victoria. Fascinating reference with tables of occupation according to sex & location. 23.3% of all employed males in the Colony were miners John Ferres, Government Printer unknown
187991271London: Chatto & Windus. 1879. 1st ed. octavo rebound in half leather with gilt decorations and raised bands to spine new endpapers pp xii 325 plus 40 pp publisher's catalogue. Faint inscription with date 1879 in ink and blindstamp to title page some light markings to top-edge otherwise near-fine condition. A beautifully rebound first edition. A report prepared by the Sub-Committee of the Afghan Committee for the British Parliament. "The object of this publication is to help our countrymen to understand by what steps they have been involved in war with the Afghan nation and what grounds are assigned for that war by its authors." Preface. Not in NLA 1st edition. Half leather. Chatto & Windus hardcover
18035000976Edinburgh: printed by Sir D. Hunter Blair & J. Bruce 1803. Folio pp. 1-14 disbound. <p><p>One of the most important amendments to the laws of Transportation formalising the requirement for convict vessels to carry a Surgeon and thus directly responsible for a huge improvement in mortality rates. The Act is also interesting for noting some of the abuses rampant aboard convict transports and other passenger vessels travelling from Britain.</p> <p>The First Fleet had been provisioned by the Admiralty itself and the Surgeons on board led by John White had an excellent record. From the Second Fleet onwards the task was contracted to private companies infamously derelict on the Second Fleet itself and with wildly varying results over the ensuing decade. On several occasions officers colluded to deny the convicts their correct rations so that the surplus could be sold upon arrival at Port Jackson for a handsome profit. A plan to return convicts to naval vessels was scuppered by the ongoing conflict with France.</p> <p>This Act regulated the terms of carrying all passengers free or convict detailing acceptable provisioning and the role of the Surgeon and allowing for a bond of £50 per head to be paid by the owners of any vessel. Although abuses continued aboard the convict transports conditions did improve overall and the casualty rate for convicts sent to New South Wales fell from one in ten between 1795 and 1801 to one in forty-six for the period 1802-1812. One paradoxical result was that British conservatives started to criticise the transports as being too comfortable and therefore a poor deterrent to crime.</p> </p> . printed by Sir D. Hunter Blair & J. Bruce unknown
1841103327London: Printed by W. Clowes and Sons for Her Majesty's Staionerry Office 1841. Softcover. very good. 105pp. Folio in original blue wrappers with some minor chipping to extremities. very good TPL 5208. 1841 Printed by W. Clowes and Sons for Her Majesty's Staionerry Office paperback
1885103605London & Glasgow: Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode 1885. Softcover. very good. 351pp. Folio in original blue wrappers with map showing"Proportion of Forests yet Standing throughout Ontario". very good Reports from Prince Edward Island Winnipeg Nova Scotia Ontario British Columbia Quebec and the Upper Ottawa. 1885 Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode paperback
1849103518London: Printed by William Clowes & Sons. for Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1849. Softcover. very good. 24pp. Folio sewn as issued. very good TPL 2995. 1849 Printed by William Clowes & Sons,.. for Her Majesty's Stationery Office paperback
1841103517London: Printed by William Clowes & Sons. for Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1841. Softcover. very good. iv72pp. Folio sewn as issued. very good TPL 5209. 1841 Printed by William Clowes & Sons,.. for Her Majesty's Stationery Office paperback
1886104441London: Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode 1886. Softcover. very good. iv471pp. Disbound. Folio approximately 12.5" high very good 1886 Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode paperback
1840103479London 1840. Softcover. very good. 151pp. Folio sewn as issued. very good TPL 5179. 1840 paperback
1852103742London 1852. Cloth. very good. 51pp. Folio sewn as issued. very good Not in TPL. 1852 hardcover
1873104430London: Printed by Harrison and Sons 1873. Softcover. very good. ii211pp. Disbound Folio approximately 12.5" high very good 1873 Printed by Harrison and Sons paperback
1852103745London 1852. Cloth. good to very good. 71pp. Folio sewn as issued. Slightly chipped and foxed. good to very good Not in TPL. 1852 hardcover
1840103402Printed for H. M. S. O. by Clowes & Sons 1840. Softcover. good to very good. v207;227;60pp. Folio. Part I sewn as issued lacking wrappers soiled with some wear to titlepage from erasure; Part II in original blue wrappers with large piece of rear corner missing; Part IV in original blue wrappers. good to very good Reference: TPL 7572-7574. Contents: Pt. 1. Lower Canada -- Pt. 2. Upper Canada political -- Pt. 4. Upper Canada. 1840 Printed for H. M. S. O. by Clowes & Sons paperback
1825103607London 1825. Softcover. good to very good. 31pp. Folio. Some dust soiling and chipping to edges not affecting text. good to very good 1825 paperback
1825103732London 1825. Cloth. good to very good. 142pp. Folio sewn as issued. Wraapers slightly soiled with two small holes punched in margin. good to very good TPL 7125. 1825 hardcover
1873165641873. Women Employment Labor LawMr. Mundella's Bill for Limiting the Hours of Labour in Factories. Observations of the Employers upon the Speech of Mr. Mundella M.P. made in the House of Commons U.K on Wednesday the 11th of June 1873. Manchester: John Heywood Excelsior Printing Works 1873. 32 pages. First edition. 8 1/4 x 5 in. Original paper wrappers. Includes three data tables in appendix regarding worker mortality rates. Liberal Party politician A.J. Mundella famous for his defense of safety bills and public education for all children speaks on unsafe working conditions and "shameful treatment" of laborers; he cites high mortality rates for women and child workers and includes mortality rate information on newborn infants who suffered neglect when their mothers were forced to return to work days after giving birth: "the return of the mother to the mill was a sentence of death on the child." In this document factory owners counter the speech given by Mundella cite statistics that claim quality of life is improving for these factory workers; while marginal gains had been made in recent decades factory labor was still very dangerous and politicians like Mundella ensured the health and safety for thousands of the least represented workers in England. Very good condition. unknown