Author: THE EDITOR
Title: The Poor Laws : Report from His Majesty's Commissioners for Inquiring into the(ir) Administration and Practical Operation including Supplement No 1
Description: London, Authority / B. Fellowes. 1834, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Professionally rebound with original boards, new end papers and spine. Name to title page and that of Professor Peter Townsend on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean slightly tanned slightly wrinkled pages in a very tight binding with roughly trimmed dusty page edges. 362 pages plus Supplement No 1 of 128pp. Official Report on the workings of The Poor Law and the Poor Law Amendment Act which led to the establishment of workhouses. From the Personal Library of the late Emeritus Professor Peter Townsend of Bristol University and the London School of Economics, Founding Professor of the University of Essex and founder of the Child Poverty Action Group. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Townsend's Collection including many of his signed and authored works. Very Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Poverty, Legislation, Work, Workhouse, Employment / Work Law


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