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1831AQ30613London: James Ridgway 1831. 32pp. Modern marbled paper boards printed paper lettering-piece to spine. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting. The first edition of a register of the 199 members of the House of Lords that voted against the passing of the Reform Bill. A second edition appeared the same year. . First edition. 8vo. James Ridgway hardcover
183284913London: Effingham Wilson 1832. A New Edition Greatly Enlarged and Corrected. Octavo. 23cm. Bound in later rather institutional black buckram with paper title label. 16pp. ads to front matter; xxxii; 683pp. 1pp ads to rear. Minor wear and bumping to extremities with a little rippling of the cloth to the front board strong and tight; internally clean later endpapers ink ownerships to front flyleaf frontispiece portrait "Friends of Reform - Foes of Revolution" quite heavily spotted with some offsetting to the title page edges untrimmed some occasional light spotting within. A very good copy in a later binding of a rather unwieldy work.<br /> <br /> A later printing of Wade's incendiary 1820 catalog of abuses performed by the Church The King the Government and various business interests against the people security and progress of Great Britain. A continued bestseller demonstrating a fervent appetite on the part of the British public to read Wade's excoriating denunciation of the upper classes and their merely wealthy counterparts. On a number of fronts this public airing of secretly dirty laundry met with some political and social success and led to some very public gestures at reform. Effingham Wilson unknown
18343806Providence 1834. Good plus. Broadside 15 x 10.5 inches printed in three columns within an ornamental border. Old folds short splits along some folds a few small chips moderate dust-soiling and foxing. Untrimmed. A rare broadside disseminating a report from a five-man committee of the General Assembly of Rhode Island recommending penal code reform and the establishment of a state prison in the Ocean State in 1834. The beginning of the report expounds upon the inconsistency of the various legal punishments meted out in county jails. The committee then evaluates different methods of imprisonment in New York Pennsylvania Connecticut and other states concluding as follows: "On the whole the committee are in favor and recommend to the General Assembly the erection of a State penitentiary on the principle of solitary confinement at labor with instruction in labor in morals and religion." The committee hoped this prison reform would "relieve the State from the future support of convicts and may produce a moral reformation in those who may be subjected to its operation." We could locate just one copy of this broadside in OCLC at Brown. unknown
185988899New York: Chas. W. Baker 1859. First Edition. Sewn pamphlet. Octavo; printed paper wrappers 8pp. Text printed in double columns. Old stains to covers and bottom margin throughout else Good and sound. <br /> <br /> A pamphlet issued by authority of the American Industrial Association of which Hoxie a District judge and reform-minded philanthropist was Vice-President. Hoxie's rather toothless report regarding the "alarming increase of the necessitous poor" within the New York city limits distilled to its essence is that "something must be done." Of far greater interest is a brief postscript relating a meeting of New York's "sewing women" under the auspices of the Association where a plan was presented to supply a clean well-lit workroom supplied with new sewing machines at no.10 Fourth Avenue in Manhattan for the use of seamstresses in distress. The presentation was made by John Cooke a Methodist minister who in the best tradition of paternalistic condescension remarked addressing a room-full of seamstresses: "The greatest sufferers are the needle women. Unfortunately they have themselves invited the evil by preferring this mode of living to other avocations sic within their reach thus crowding the city labor market and by an unavoidable consequence cheapening labor." Cooke goes on to propose a solution whereby young working women would be transported out of the city and put into situations in "the country." The proposal for free sewing machines and a clean place to work was met with favor by the women's representatives. No mention is made of their reaction to the idea of voluntary exile to parts unknown. Chas. W. Baker unknown
1853005092London: Fred Pitman 1853. 3 4-124pp 4. Original printed card covers. Back strip defective and largely absent binding still holding well corners rubbed covers lightly rubbed and soiled. Internally a few spots of foxing but generally fairly clean. Divided into monthly sections with biblical verses in Pitman's phonetic spelling system which comprised thirty-six letters representing all the sounds of the English language. Seemingly unrecorded. First Edition. Card Covers. Fair. 48mo. Fred Pitman Hardcover
187230317Philadelphia: Published for the Industrial League by Henry Carey Baird 1872. First Edition. Octavo 23.5cm.; disbound from larger volume with remnants of cloth spine still present; 96pp.; frontispiece full-page illus. throughout. Very faint previous vertical fold else Very Good and fresh. The title story is a satirical utopia intended to discredit supporters of laissez-faire economics and the Free-Trade League in particular. LEWIS p. 57; SARGENT p. 29; not in NEGLEY. Published for the Industrial League by Henry Carey Baird unknown
189448920Chicago: By the Author 1894. Revised Edition. 12mo 20cm; original pictorial wrappers stapled; 931pp; illus. Text is tanned and a bit brittle at the edges neat splits to front wrapper above and below the staples with several tiny tears and a few slivers missing from wrapper extremities particularly at preliminary and terminal leaves; Good complete copy. A tax reform utopia originally published serially in the Chicago Sentinel between 1879 and 1885. An author's note at base of title page states: ".it was then published in cheap pamphlet form - of which over a hundred thousand copies have since been sold. Its popularity as an educator seems to warrant the present better and more expensive edition." Issued as Vol. I no. 1 in Norton's Quarterly Sentinel apparently a successor to his weekly newspaper of the same name. No further numbers of the Quarterly appear to have been issued. <br /> <br /> Ten Men of Money Island was variously reprinted even as late as 1930 including editions by Wayland's Appeal to Reason the London utopian publisher Reeves and the Chicago publisher F.J. Schulte. SARGENT p.45 citing only the London ed. Not in Negley or Lewis and not found in Wright. By the Author unknown
1845547003New York: American Female Moral Reform Society 1845. Unbound. Very Good. Single leaf folded to make eight pages. One quarter of first page toned old folds very good or better. A cursory examination of the contents indicates that the American Female Moral Reform Society weren't very enthusiastic about prostitution. American Female Moral Reform Society unknown
18673134867Leipzig: Zentralantiquariat der DDR 1867. XVIII, 270 Seiten. Frakturdruck. 8° (17,5-22,5 cm). Orig.-Leinenband mit goldgeprägtem Titel auf Deckel und Rücken. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
18993009320Berlin, Verlag der Arbeiter-Versorgung, 1899. 103 S. Hlwd.
18609461Berlin, Verlag von A. Bath, 1860. 8°. VI, 290 S., HLdr. d. Zt. m. Rückenverg. u. goldgepr. Rückentitel.
187410163CBStrassburg / London, Trübner, 1874. gr.8°, XV, 216 S. auf recht dickem Papier, Text: Englisch, Halbleinen-Einband des mittleren 20. Jahrhunderts mit goldener Rückenbeschriftung (nur: Valdes) sowie dezenter goldener Rückenverzierung Erstausgabe Einband minimal berieben, Buchrücken unten ein wenig beschabt, Seitenränder leicht nachgedunkelt, obere Ecke von Seite 13/14 mit kleiner Fehlstelle, sonst schönes, sauberes Exemplar (vo2gla)
1892407672Verlag von R. Eisenschmidt, Berlin, 1892, 2. Auflage. 8°. Brauner Halblederband der Zeit auf 5 Bünden, mit Lederecken, marmoriertem Buntpapierbezug, vergold. Rückentitel u. gemusterten Vorsätzen mit eingedrucktem (!) Ex Libris R. Eisenschmidt sowie mit marmoriertem Dreiseitenschnitt, Vorwort des Verfassers von 1892 u. Inhaltsverzeichniß; 63 S.(die letzten beiden Bl. z.T. zusammenklebend), Ecken u. Kanten etwast berieben, Buntpapierbezug wenig beschabt; hier ein Exemplar aus der Archivbibliothek des Verlegers selbst; nur Titelbl. wenig hellfleckig, wenige Lagen min. gewellt, Buchblock wenig gebogen, Schönes und dekoratives Buch!
186832603Basel : Schneider, 1868. NUR Band 2. 410 S. Kl. 8°. 3. Aufl. OLwd mit Goldpräg. u. marmorierten Schnitten. (Ausgewählte Schriften / [Elizabeth Rundle Charles] ; 2)
1871229841871. Parliament House of Commons. Report from the Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life 1871 documents the development of state intervention into infant care mortality and childcare practices in industrial Britain establishing a foundational record in the history of child welfare law and public health regulation. Produced in response to widespread concern over infant deaths associated with "baby farming" the report supports research into nineteenth-century social reform gender and labor history and the emergence of legal frameworks governing child protection. Its findings informed subsequent legislation including the Infant Life Protection Act of 1872 and later reforms expanding state oversight of childcare marking a significant shift toward recognizing infant welfare as a matter of public responsibility rather than private domestic concern.<br /> <br /> Parliament House of Commons. Report from the Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life; together with the Proceedings of the Committee Minutes of Evidence Appendix and Index. London: Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed 20 July 1871. First edition. The volume records proceedings of a parliamentary inquiry directed "to inquire as to the best means of preventing the destruction of the lives of infants put out to nurse for hire by their parents." Contents include formal committee findings extensive Minutes of Evidence and appended statistical and documentary material. Testimony from surgeons coroners medical editors and local officials details infant mortality rates across London Lancashire Yorkshire and Scottish industrial centers. Witnesses describe systems of paid infant care including lump-sum "adoption" payments and weekly nursing arrangements that enabled maternal wage labor alongside accounts of infants transferred "generally immediately after birth" to low-cost nursing establishments. The report analyzes financial structures secrecy in lying-in houses and disparities in care tied to poverty and illegitimacy. Discussions within the proceedings reveal tensions between criminal law enforcement Poor Law administration and emerging public health authorities while tabulated data and narrative testimony together document patterns of neglect mortality and institutional response.<br /> <br /> The material documents the system of early child welfare regulation through parliamentary inquiry medical testimony and statistical evidence revealing how infant care practices were scrutinized categorized and brought under state oversight and providing primary-source evidence for the study of legal intervention in family life the expansion of public health governance and the consolidation of parens patriae authority. Issued at a time of accelerating industrialization and urban poverty the report demonstrates how gendered labor economic precarity and unregulated childcare markets contributed to infant mortality and prompted legislative reform. Large octavo; single volume; contemporary red cloth with black spine label lettered in gilt. Light rubbing minor surface wear and small spots to binding with edge wear; internally light toning and scattered marginal wear; text clean and fully readable. Overall condition: Very good. unknown
18812301150003Civil Service Reform Association Boston Mass. 1881. First Edition. Art Prints & Posters. Very Good. American Civil Service Reform : Massachusetts : Good Governance in the Gilded Age Original Broadside. Sheet in excellent condition. Printed on blue paper. Two folds. Dimensions: 14 1/2 x 21 inches. Small ink stamp on bottom left corner dated 1881. <br> The broadside lays out the principles of good government. It offers quotes from President Grant and Gen. Garfield about the importance of civil service reform; the example of success in England; explains the core reason for the Civil Service Reform Association; a brief view of the Association's constitution; and a list of the principal officers. <br> The Association's President Moorfield Storey and other "Mugwumps" were strongly in favor of anti-corruption / good government reforms advocated by Grover Cleveland and other reformers. "The principles' of the Association were as follows: "That while certain officers of the Government should be in sympathy with the policy of the Administration the routine business should be conducted on business principles; that officers should be appointed on account of fitness for the work to be done and should be continued in office as long as they do that work well' that offices should not be used for partisan purposes; that Representatives are chosen to legislate and their time should not be given to the distribution of patronage; that the adoption of the well-devised system carrying out these principles will insure better administration and better legislation." Also includes a reprinted article on the Association from the New York Times February 19 1881. Civil Service Reform Association (Boston, Mass.) unknown
186291599Mainz: Kirchheim 1862. XX, 660 Seiten. Frakturdruck. 8° (17,5-22,5 cm). Halblederband der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Rücken. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
1852113934London E. Wilson 1852. 1852 edition. Hardback. A good copy in the original cloth with printed-label to spine. Slight dust-dulling with minor rubbing toning and some light staining. Internally very good. Remains well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Scans on request. ; 672 pages; Description: 672 p. Subjects: Committee for Reform of the Board of Customs London. London, E. Wilson hardcover
18873030462Linz, Verlag der Ebenhöch'schen Buchhandlung Korb, 1887. VIII, 119 S. OBroschur.
189160639Wien, Manz, 1891. Gr.-8°. 49 S., OKart.
1900435376Liverpool: Financial Reform Financial Reform Association Liverpool Financial Reform Association Liverpool Association Liverpool 1900. Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-library. Marks and scores on boards. Spine ends and leading corners are worn. Page block is marked and foxed. Foxing in the volume. Library stamp on first page. Ink writing on last title page. Binding is intact contents are clear. AM. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Ex-Library. Financial Reform Financial Reform Association Liverpool Financial Reform Association Liverpool Association Liverpool Hardcover
188647659London: Longmans Green & Co. and Liverpool: The Financial Reform Association 1886. 8vo; contemporary half calf over marbled boards with red morocco spine label; front and rear boards detached inexpert repairs made made with buckram but contents are clean and sound; good. Longmans, Green & Co. and Liverpool: The Financial Reform Association unknown
