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242 p. + Portrait illustrations. 8vo. Original red publisher's cloth binding, soiled. Spine faded. PA 07B.
Small inscription to front end paper. Foxing to end papers and a little foxing to a few other pages. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with slightly faded unmarked boards, indenting to front board edges and bumping to lower corners and spine ends. Embossing to front board and clear gilt lettering to spine. 264pp. An account of the social work of the Salvation Army in Great Britain.
3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 3 fine portrait frontispieces (all original tissue guards present), 21 plates, a folding facsimile and very numerous engraved illustrations (many full-page) in the text; original black half morocco, diced black cloth boards, backs with five raised bands, second compartments with red leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, fourth and sixth compartments lettered and blocked in gilt, red edges, black endpapers, upper hinge of second volume cracked (but binding entirely sound) else a near fine, virtually unread set in publisher's original binding.
8vo., First Edition, with large folding coloured chart on japon as frontispiece, wanting [blank] front free endpaper; original black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, lemon endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. With 6pp Salvation Army catalogue at end. William Booth founded the Salvation Army in 1878. In 1890, the same year that Stanley published 'In Darkest Africa', he published his most important work with deliberate irony. Here he analyses the causes of the pauperism and vice of the period and proposes a remedy by ten expedients. These include land settlement, emigration, rescue work among prostitutes and at the prison-gate, the poor man's bank, and the poor man's lawyer. Booth's powerful arguments were convincing, money was liberally subscribed and a large part of the scheme was carried through. Printing and the Mind of Man, 560.
Inscribed by author to his daughter Alice, signed "from her father, Xmas 1910" upon front free endpaper. [Documentation supporting this provenance will be provided.] xiii, [1], 375 pages. Index of Subjects. List of Authorities. Complete with 82 black and white plates, several of which fold out. Gilt lettering and decoration upon olive cloth. Top edge gilt. "Explains where we fall short, and suggests how the true remedies for individual, anti-social and collective misconduct or communal misunderstandings may be best applied". - Introductory Preface. Chapters include: Humanity, Normal and Abnormal; The Degenerate; The Criminal; How Criminals are Made; Responsibility; Sin and Crime; British Methods and Results; The Relations of Physiology to Justice; Development and Its Dangers; The Physiology of the Brain; Where is Mind?; The Physical Basis of Mind and Personality; Social Hygiene in Holland; The Treatment of Vagabonds and Crime in Belgium; Treatment; The Way Out - General William Booth of the Salvation Army offers a message for England. Wilson was "A genius before his time. The blatant truths of his observations are staggering. Political correctness was in the long distant future so he told it like it was. Open this book at random and you will find yourself drawn into the narrative, without fail." - online review. Light foxing. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A special copy of this landmark study. Book