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Centuries Apart.
Boston, Little Brown 1894. Octavo publisher's gilt decorated blue cloth; x,347pp, two maps and six plates. Minor signs of use but quite a good copy.
¶ First edition. An Antarctic lost race, this time of comparatively recent origin - Tudor England. Toward the end of the 19th century Antarctica was one of the busiest spots on earth, what with lost races tucked in every crevice and lost mariners crawling all over the place. They must have bumped into each other but - like real explorers in central Asia - studiously ignoring each other's pack train quartered down the other end of whatever remote village, pretending they each were the only white men for thousands of miles - discretion was the better part of a thrilling narrative and silence was the tacit rule.
¶ First edition. An Antarctic lost race, this time of comparatively recent origin - Tudor England. Toward the end of the 19th century Antarctica was one of the busiest spots on earth, what with lost races tucked in every crevice and lost mariners crawling all over the place. They must have bumped into each other but - like real explorers in central Asia - studiously ignoring each other's pack train quartered down the other end of whatever remote village, pretending they each were the only white men for thousands of miles - discretion was the better part of a thrilling narrative and silence was the tacit rule.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9150
AUD 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 105.5 US$ 111.96 | £UK 90.25 | JP¥ 17269]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers antarctic lost race imaginary voyages c19th America Antarctica
Essays on Truth and Reality.
Oxford Univ Press 1914. Octavo, very good in publisher's cloth (with just a bit of wear to the tips).
¶ First edition. With the 1931 ownership inscription of Swedish philosopher Torgny T. Segerstedt whose doctoral thesis was 'Value and Reality in Bradley’s Philosophy'.
¶ First edition. With the 1931 ownership inscription of Swedish philosopher Torgny T. Segerstedt whose doctoral thesis was 'Value and Reality in Bradley’s Philosophy'.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7734
AUD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 60.25 US$ 63.97 | £UK 51.75 | JP¥ 9868]
Keywords: philosophy theory c19th England c20th logic metaphysics ethics social sciences
The Red Cripple. A Tale of the Midnight Express.
Melbourne, George Robertson & H.W. Mills 1891. Octavo publisher's colour illustrated wrapper; [6],186pp. Price changed by hand from one to two shillings. An outstanding copy.
¶ First edition of this scarce, busy murder mystery, a tangle of disguise, false identity, astounding coincidence and extended comic relief. Despite the often repeated note this has nothing to do with a diamond robbery but in passing near the end. Almost all of this takes place on the Manchester-London train - though the unsolved murders started seven years ago - with hair-raising action, comedy, tragedy and mystery piled upon mystery. An all round Melbourne production, though disguised as the account of detective Medway of Scotland Yard sent to Bradley in Melbourne. Bradley was in theatre - manager of the Walter Bentley company's tour of Australia and New Zealand at about this time. He was busy in 1891: he published another thriller, had plays produced and, at the end of 1892 went off to conquer America with his plays. He puffed the forthcoming New York production of 'The Gold Escort' - the introduction of Australian theatre to American audiences. I can't discover that America ever saw the drama, action and slaughter promised but Bradley does surface here and there over following decades as a manager, producer and maybe playwright. If he'd managed to carry off setting the whole thing on the train this would now be hailed as a pioneering modernist work.
¶ First edition of this scarce, busy murder mystery, a tangle of disguise, false identity, astounding coincidence and extended comic relief. Despite the often repeated note this has nothing to do with a diamond robbery but in passing near the end. Almost all of this takes place on the Manchester-London train - though the unsolved murders started seven years ago - with hair-raising action, comedy, tragedy and mystery piled upon mystery. An all round Melbourne production, though disguised as the account of detective Medway of Scotland Yard sent to Bradley in Melbourne. Bradley was in theatre - manager of the Walter Bentley company's tour of Australia and New Zealand at about this time. He was busy in 1891: he published another thriller, had plays produced and, at the end of 1892 went off to conquer America with his plays. He puffed the forthcoming New York production of 'The Gold Escort' - the introduction of Australian theatre to American audiences. I can't discover that America ever saw the drama, action and slaughter promised but Bradley does surface here and there over following decades as a manager, producer and maybe playwright. If he'd managed to carry off setting the whole thing on the train this would now be hailed as a pioneering modernist work.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9547
AUD 1500.00 [Appr.: EURO 903 US$ 959.61 | £UK 773.5 | JP¥ 148017]
Keywords: literature c19th Australia detective crime fiction thrillers mystery
L'ouevre du Service du Travail allemand.
Bruxelles (Berlin printed) 1940. Octavo publisher's printed wrapper; 32pp, four photo plates and a folding map. No.4 from the series La Force Economique du Reich. The author's name is spelled Brandebourg on the title and Brandenburg on the cover.
¶ The labour or work service in Germany seems still to be a topic that the French don't want to touch. Those who, later in the war, were conscripted rather than volunteers fared no better in the eyes of a public determined to perpetuate the myth that every French citizen was a member of the resistance - apart from a few too obvious bad apples, quickly executed, and any number of helpless women who had their heads shaved. Here the work service in place in Germany since 1933 is explained to the newly conquered of western Europe.
¶ The labour or work service in Germany seems still to be a topic that the French don't want to touch. Those who, later in the war, were conscripted rather than volunteers fared no better in the eyes of a public determined to perpetuate the myth that every French citizen was a member of the resistance - apart from a few too obvious bad apples, quickly executed, and any number of helpless women who had their heads shaved. Here the work service in place in Germany since 1933 is explained to the newly conquered of western Europe.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10544
AUD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 39.25 US$ 41.58 | £UK 33.75 | JP¥ 6414]
Keywords: social history sciences WWII France occupation Germany economics c20th political economy Nazis fascism propaganda
Airship Investigation. Report of Col. Henry Breckinridge Counsel for the Joint Committee to Investigate Dirigible Disasters.
Washington, Govt Printing Office 1933. Octavo contemporary cloth; [4],177 leaves printed on one side, folding plan.
¶ Zeppelin captain Anton Heinen's copy of the preliminary printing for the Committee. Printed only on rectos quite crudely - pages are crooked, ink is uneven and often smudged - it looks like a few copies were rushed through on a proofing press, with final details like the contents' list left unfinished. Was it printed again properly? This inquiry was sparked by the crash of the Akron. Heinen, one of the expert witnesses, was the most experienced airship pilot in America and probably the most experienced and irascible expert witness at crash inquiries. He had started in airships in 1911, been a test pilot of zeppelins and instructor during the war and had moved to America in 1921.
¶ Zeppelin captain Anton Heinen's copy of the preliminary printing for the Committee. Printed only on rectos quite crudely - pages are crooked, ink is uneven and often smudged - it looks like a few copies were rushed through on a proofing press, with final details like the contents' list left unfinished. Was it printed again properly? This inquiry was sparked by the crash of the Akron. Heinen, one of the expert witnesses, was the most experienced airship pilot in America and probably the most experienced and irascible expert witness at crash inquiries. He had started in airships in 1911, been a test pilot of zeppelins and instructor during the war and had moved to America in 1921.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8754
AUD 750.00 [Appr.: EURO 451.5 US$ 479.81 | £UK 386.75 | JP¥ 74009]
Keywords: aviation aeronautics zeppelins airships dirigibles c20th America association
![BROCK, R.W. [ie John Alexander Barr]., Mihawhenua: the Adventures of a Party of Tourists Amongst a Tribe of Maoris Discovered in Western Otago, New Zealand. Recorded By R. W. Brock, MA, LLB. Edited By R. H. Chapman. (Being a Manuscript Addressed to the Editor, Found Attached to a Maori Kite on Mount Alta ...](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Brock9178.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Mihawhenua: the Adventures of a Party of Tourists Amongst a Tribe of Maoris Discovered in Western Otago, New Zealand. Recorded By R. W. Brock, MA, LLB. Edited By R. H. Chapman. (Being a Manuscript Addressed to the Editor, Found Attached to a Maori Kite on Mount Alta ...
Dunedin, Wilkie & Co 1888. Octavo publisher's illustrated wrapper (spine chipped); 198,[2 adverts]pp. Used but a very decent copy.
¶ A lost race thriller with the race being discovered in a lush world around a warm lake hidden in the mountains. Barr published a few novels all in a rush, including two thrillers - one Australian - under the name Gilbert Rock but his own story is perhaps more exciting than Moa riding Maoris, cannibals, and treacherous French sailors. A Dunedin lawyer, he petitioned in 1888 for a protective tax on all imported literature, assuring the government that he was "prepared to supply the colonial market with literature if inducement offers." All his known novels then appeared by November. Soon after he did 'the Pacific Slope' (a great term I hadn't heard before), abandoning his family and absconding with many thousands of his clients' pounds either lost or in his pocket. Here Barr vanishes from view except for a startling piece in the Auckland Star of October 1 1894 in which is mentioned a letter just received by Sir George Grey from the author of Mihawhenua with a return address but an indecipherable signature. No-one could decipher the signature so Grey's secretary cut the signature from the letter and pasted it onto the reply. No connection was made between the author of Mihawhenua and the missing lawyer. A final glimpse is a London death notice in 1907 which identifies him as a former solicitor of Dunedin and tells us he has been living in England with his wife and family for five or six years. I wonder if it was the same family. The dedication, to the colonial press in "grateful acknowledgment", of one of his thrillers, 'By Passion Driven', was declined on conscientious grounds by the Christchurch Telegraph who said, "What object Mr Gilbert Rock could have had we do not know". Perhaps his dedication was for The Daily Telegraph who described his 'Colonists' as "not a badly told story".
¶ A lost race thriller with the race being discovered in a lush world around a warm lake hidden in the mountains. Barr published a few novels all in a rush, including two thrillers - one Australian - under the name Gilbert Rock but his own story is perhaps more exciting than Moa riding Maoris, cannibals, and treacherous French sailors. A Dunedin lawyer, he petitioned in 1888 for a protective tax on all imported literature, assuring the government that he was "prepared to supply the colonial market with literature if inducement offers." All his known novels then appeared by November. Soon after he did 'the Pacific Slope' (a great term I hadn't heard before), abandoning his family and absconding with many thousands of his clients' pounds either lost or in his pocket. Here Barr vanishes from view except for a startling piece in the Auckland Star of October 1 1894 in which is mentioned a letter just received by Sir George Grey from the author of Mihawhenua with a return address but an indecipherable signature. No-one could decipher the signature so Grey's secretary cut the signature from the letter and pasted it onto the reply. No connection was made between the author of Mihawhenua and the missing lawyer. A final glimpse is a London death notice in 1907 which identifies him as a former solicitor of Dunedin and tells us he has been living in England with his wife and family for five or six years. I wonder if it was the same family. The dedication, to the colonial press in "grateful acknowledgment", of one of his thrillers, 'By Passion Driven', was declined on conscientious grounds by the Christchurch Telegraph who said, "What object Mr Gilbert Rock could have had we do not know". Perhaps his dedication was for The Daily Telegraph who described his 'Colonists' as "not a badly told story".
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9178
AUD 600.00 [Appr.: EURO 361.25 US$ 383.85 | £UK 309.5 | JP¥ 59207]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers fantasy lost race New Zealand c19th
Whiskey Drips. A series of interesting sketches illustrating the operations of the whiskey thieves in their evasion of the law ... to which is added, a circumstantial account of his attempted murder by the Philadelphia Whiskey Ring ... the only authenticated instance of hired assassins in the United States.
Philadelphia, Evans [1873]. Octavo publisher's decorated brown cloth blocked in gilt and black (spine tips worn); 349,[3]pp and four wood engraved plates. Inner front hinge cracked but firm.
¶ First edition, it was reprinted or re-issued in 1876 with the duller title 'The Adventures of a United States Detective'. Quite uncommon, unlikely as it seems for this type of American book of this period. Usually there are plenty of shabby copies of such books around. Unlike many of these true stories Detective Brooks did exist, he was famous for his Whiskey Ring exploits. He became head of the American Secret Service and died in 1895 of heart trouble - apparently exacerbated by having a bullet imbedded in it for 16 years. Whether or not he wrote this, it is pacy and readable and as much of his investigations involved corruption within the service as illicit distilling.
¶ First edition, it was reprinted or re-issued in 1876 with the duller title 'The Adventures of a United States Detective'. Quite uncommon, unlikely as it seems for this type of American book of this period. Usually there are plenty of shabby copies of such books around. Unlike many of these true stories Detective Brooks did exist, he was famous for his Whiskey Ring exploits. He became head of the American Secret Service and died in 1895 of heart trouble - apparently exacerbated by having a bullet imbedded in it for 16 years. Whether or not he wrote this, it is pacy and readable and as much of his investigations involved corruption within the service as illicit distilling.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8852
AUD 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 72.25 US$ 76.77 | £UK 62 | JP¥ 11841]
Keywords: law crime alchohol c19th America social history thrillers
The Inequalities in the Motion of the Moon Due to the Direct Action of the Planets. An essay which obtained the Adams Prize in the University of Cambridge for the year 1907.
Cambridge University Press 1908. Large octavo, very good in somewhat marked publisher's cloth; xii,92pp and errata leaf.
¶ First edition and quite scarce. "The remaining parts of the lunar theory, and, more especially, the planetary perturbations in the moon's motion are among the most difficult subjects in celestial mechanics. Brown's most original work was in this field." (Schlesinger & Brouwer). It's a bit off the point but this extract from a letter on teaching by Professor W. Edwards Deming of New York University caught my attention: "No luster of personality can atone for teaching error instead of truth. One of the finest teachers that I ever knew could hold 300 students spellbound, teaching what is wrong. The two poorest teachers that I ever had ... were Professor Ernest Brown in mathematics at Yale and Sir Ronald Fisher at University College in London. Sir Ernest will be known for centuries for his work in lunar theory ... People came from all over the world to listen to their impossible teaching, and to learn from them, and learn they did".
¶ First edition and quite scarce. "The remaining parts of the lunar theory, and, more especially, the planetary perturbations in the moon's motion are among the most difficult subjects in celestial mechanics. Brown's most original work was in this field." (Schlesinger & Brouwer). It's a bit off the point but this extract from a letter on teaching by Professor W. Edwards Deming of New York University caught my attention: "No luster of personality can atone for teaching error instead of truth. One of the finest teachers that I ever knew could hold 300 students spellbound, teaching what is wrong. The two poorest teachers that I ever had ... were Professor Ernest Brown in mathematics at Yale and Sir Ronald Fisher at University College in London. Sir Ernest will be known for centuries for his work in lunar theory ... People came from all over the world to listen to their impossible teaching, and to learn from them, and learn they did".
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9637
AUD 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 54.25 US$ 57.58 | £UK 46.5 | JP¥ 8881]
Keywords: science physics mathematics astronomy moon c20th lunar theory
An Introductory Treatise on the Lunar Theory.
Cambridge Univ Press 1896. Large octavo, very good in publisher's cloth (a touch worn at the tips); xvi,292pp and errata slip.
¶ First edition and quite scarce. It's a bit off the point but this extract from a letter on teaching by Professor W. Edwards Deming of New York University caught my attention: "No luster of personality can atone for teaching error instead of truth. One of the finest teachers that I ever knew could hold 300 students spellbound, teaching what is wrong. The two poorest teachers that I ever had ... were Professor Ernest Brown in mathematics at Yale and Sir Ronald Fisher at University College in London. Sir Ernest will be known for centuries for his work in lunar theory ... People came from all over the world to listen to their impossible teaching, and to learn from them, and learn they did".
¶ First edition and quite scarce. It's a bit off the point but this extract from a letter on teaching by Professor W. Edwards Deming of New York University caught my attention: "No luster of personality can atone for teaching error instead of truth. One of the finest teachers that I ever knew could hold 300 students spellbound, teaching what is wrong. The two poorest teachers that I ever had ... were Professor Ernest Brown in mathematics at Yale and Sir Ronald Fisher at University College in London. Sir Ernest will be known for centuries for his work in lunar theory ... People came from all over the world to listen to their impossible teaching, and to learn from them, and learn they did".
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7794
AUD 750.00 [Appr.: EURO 451.5 US$ 479.81 | £UK 386.75 | JP¥ 74009]
Keywords: science physics mathematics astronomy moon c19th
The Story of Kalaka. Texts, history, legends and miniature paintings of the Svetambara Jain hagiographical work the Kalakacaryakatha.
Washington, Freer Gallery 1933. Large quarto publisher's printed stiff wrapper; viii,149pp and 15 plates (seven heliotypes, five of these colour). A nice copy. Freer Gallery of Art Oriental Studies No. 1.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8537
AUD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 39.25 US$ 41.58 | £UK 33.75 | JP¥ 6414]
Keywords: art history literature south Asia India
![Yanagisawa Bunzo &c., [Kaidan Kasane Monogatari].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Kaidan10891.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Kaidan Kasane Monogatari].
Osaka, Konomura Shosuke 1889 (Meiji 22). 18x13cm publisher's colour lithograph boards with cloth spine; [4],56,[2]pp on double folded leaves, one double page and four single page illustrations. Mild browning, a pleasing fresh copy.
¶ First edition of this version of the Kasane ghost story, a story that bulges with murder, greed, curses, possession and guilt. Supposedly based on a true story the saintly monk Yuten stars as the exorcist, and was the inspiration for prints, books, rakugo, kabuki and film. The double leaves seemed a bit extravagant for a book like this but all the paper is re-used from some other job with printing on the other side. This is a 'ball cover' (boru hyoshi, apparently a corruption of 'board') book - a signal of modernity and the Japanese equivalent of a yellowback: flimsy western style bindings with lithograph covers that rarely survive in such good shape. Worldcat finds only the NDL entry and a search of CiNii found no more.
¶ First edition of this version of the Kasane ghost story, a story that bulges with murder, greed, curses, possession and guilt. Supposedly based on a true story the saintly monk Yuten stars as the exorcist, and was the inspiration for prints, books, rakugo, kabuki and film. The double leaves seemed a bit extravagant for a book like this but all the paper is re-used from some other job with printing on the other side. This is a 'ball cover' (boru hyoshi, apparently a corruption of 'board') book - a signal of modernity and the Japanese equivalent of a yellowback: flimsy western style bindings with lithograph covers that rarely survive in such good shape. Worldcat finds only the NDL entry and a search of CiNii found no more.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10891
AUD 500.00 [Appr.: EURO 301 US$ 319.87 | £UK 258 | JP¥ 49339]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers occult c19th Japan ghosts meiji
Articles of Charge of High Crimes and Misdemeanors Against Warren Hastings, Esquire Late Governer General of Bengal [with] The Defence of Warren Hastings, Esq .. at the Bar of the House of Commons....
London, Stockdale1786. Octavo calf (rebacked).
¶ I got confused, then bored, trying to untangle all the forms in which Burke's charges and Hasting's defence appeared. So what is here are articles I to XXII of Burke's charges (of which XXII, the last, seems the only one Burke is solely responsible for). Of these, articles I to XVI are continuously paginated and signed; articles XVII to XXI are a separate printing and presumably had a title if sold separately; and article XXII is again separately signed, and titled as the fourth [and last] part. At the end of the first part of the 'Defence' the publishers advertise part II ready for "Thursday next" (9 May) and 'The Charges' complete in one volume which, as Burke had only finished presenting his charges the day before the advert dated 6 May, seems fairly speedy. Hasting's defence is in 3 parts each with titles but is continuously paginated and signed. So, some of it may be first printings and some may be reprinting, presumably from standing type. The rest is up to you.
¶ I got confused, then bored, trying to untangle all the forms in which Burke's charges and Hasting's defence appeared. So what is here are articles I to XXII of Burke's charges (of which XXII, the last, seems the only one Burke is solely responsible for). Of these, articles I to XVI are continuously paginated and signed; articles XVII to XXI are a separate printing and presumably had a title if sold separately; and article XXII is again separately signed, and titled as the fourth [and last] part. At the end of the first part of the 'Defence' the publishers advertise part II ready for "Thursday next" (9 May) and 'The Charges' complete in one volume which, as Burke had only finished presenting his charges the day before the advert dated 6 May, seems fairly speedy. Hasting's defence is in 3 parts each with titles but is continuously paginated and signed. So, some of it may be first printings and some may be reprinting, presumably from standing type. The rest is up to you.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 6814
AUD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 90.5 US$ 95.96 | £UK 77.5 | JP¥ 14802]
Keywords: law parliament history England c18th colonies Bengal India
The Crevice.
NY, Watt 1915. Octavo publisher's illustrated cloth blocked in yellow and black; frontispiece and three double page plates by Will Grefe. A couple of small surface blemishes on the cover, still a very good bright copy.
¶ First edition. A detective thriller; it goes downhill a bit once past the cover but there are worse. Burns was a professional: secret service agent, detective and head of the BOI, precursor to the FBI.
¶ First edition. A detective thriller; it goes downhill a bit once past the cover but there are worse. Burns was a professional: secret service agent, detective and head of the BOI, precursor to the FBI.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8725
AUD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 60.25 US$ 63.97 | £UK 51.75 | JP¥ 9868]
Keywords: literature fiction c20th detective thriller America mystery
An Inquiry, Whether Crime and Misery are Produced or Prevented, by Our Present System of Prison Discipline. Illustrated by descriptions ... sixth edition.
London, for John & Arthur Arch &c. 1818. 12mo, uncut in modern boards; viii,184pp; some spotting or browning but a very acceptable copy.
¶ Six editions of this inflammatory little book appeared in 1818; all and any are uncommon. Much of its power must be attributed to the fact that the descriptions of all prisons (with the exception of Philadelphia) are first hand, dates and names are specified and that, despite some repugnance, he has not suppressed 'scenes which may be considered as reflecting discredit on those who ought to have prevented them'. The immediate result of this was the Society for the Reformation of Prison Discipline and more indirect influences can be followed through translations into French and Italian over the next few years. Buxton was born, bred and then married into the heart of British philanthropy - his mother was a Quaker do-gooder and he married Hannah Gurney, Elizabeth Fry's sister - and his life was devoted to reform: his first book (this) is on prison reform and his last (1839) on slavery.
¶ Six editions of this inflammatory little book appeared in 1818; all and any are uncommon. Much of its power must be attributed to the fact that the descriptions of all prisons (with the exception of Philadelphia) are first hand, dates and names are specified and that, despite some repugnance, he has not suppressed 'scenes which may be considered as reflecting discredit on those who ought to have prevented them'. The immediate result of this was the Society for the Reformation of Prison Discipline and more indirect influences can be followed through translations into French and Italian over the next few years. Buxton was born, bred and then married into the heart of British philanthropy - his mother was a Quaker do-gooder and he married Hannah Gurney, Elizabeth Fry's sister - and his life was devoted to reform: his first book (this) is on prison reform and his last (1839) on slavery.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7546
AUD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 180.75 US$ 191.92 | £UK 154.75 | JP¥ 29603]
Keywords: social sciences reform prisons history c19th England crime progress
An Inquiry, Whether Crime and Misery are Produced or Prevented, by Our Present System of Prison Discipline. Illustrated by descriptions ... sixth edition.
London, for John & Arthur Arch &c. 1818. 12mo, uncut in original boards (spine chipped); viii,184pp, 4pp publisher's adverts. A little browning, a few spots; quite a good copy with the bookplate of Robert Dundas, Viscount Melville, administrator, politician, statesman &c who gave his name to several spots around the world including two in Australia.
¶ Six editions of this inflammatory little book appeared in 1818, this being the last of course. Much of its power comes from the fact that the descriptions of all prisons (with the exception of Philadelphia) are first hand - dates and names are specified - and that, despite some repugnance, he has not suppressed 'scenes which may be considered as reflecting discredit on those who ought to have prevented them'. The immediate result of this was the Society for the Reformation of Prison Discipline and more indirect influences can be followed through translations into European languages over the next few years. Buxton was born, bred and then married into the heart of British philanthropy - his mother was a Quaker do-gooder and he married Hannah Gurney, Elizabeth Fry's sister - and his life was devoted to reform: this is his first book and his last (1839) is on slavery.
¶ Six editions of this inflammatory little book appeared in 1818, this being the last of course. Much of its power comes from the fact that the descriptions of all prisons (with the exception of Philadelphia) are first hand - dates and names are specified - and that, despite some repugnance, he has not suppressed 'scenes which may be considered as reflecting discredit on those who ought to have prevented them'. The immediate result of this was the Society for the Reformation of Prison Discipline and more indirect influences can be followed through translations into European languages over the next few years. Buxton was born, bred and then married into the heart of British philanthropy - his mother was a Quaker do-gooder and he married Hannah Gurney, Elizabeth Fry's sister - and his life was devoted to reform: this is his first book and his last (1839) is on slavery.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8550
AUD 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 210.75 US$ 223.91 | £UK 180.5 | JP¥ 34537]
Keywords: social sciences reform prisons history c19th England crime progress association
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