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HOWARD, JOHN. An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe; with Various Papers relative to the Plague; together with Further Observations on
HOWARD, JOHN. An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe; with Various Papers relative to the Plague; together with Further Observations on Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals; and Additional Remarks on the Present State of those in Great Britain and Ireland. 22 engraved plates; folding engraved chart. [v]-viii, 259, [15] pages; lacks initial blank and half-title. 4to, modern 1/2 morocco; later owner's note on title, leaf of binder's directions rehinged, with margins cropped, plates variously foxed and offset. Warrington: William Eyres for T. Cadell et al., 1789
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Notes: first edition. "Howard began to investigate the conditions of hospitals (including mental hospitals and quarantine detention houses) shortly after his first prison visits in 1773. The present work is largely devoted to his report on the conditions of various European hospitals, containing both plans and notes on management and personnel"--Norman 1109. Baumgartner 21; Garrison-Morton 1601.
Tipped in are extraneous portraits of Howard and the philanthropist William Wilberforce, and a leaf inscribed: "Mr Howard requests Mr Wilberforce will accept this book from him, as a small testimony of his esteem." Laid in are the bookplates of Wilberforce and Howard A. Kelly.
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