Author: Joseph Adshead
Title: Prisons and Prisoners;
Description: London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845. First edition. Cloth. First edition of this book concerned with the prison system by Joseph Adshead. First edition of this uncommon work by penal reformer and pamphleteer Joseph Adshead. Here he attacks Charles Dickens's views on prisons and described the Eastern State Penitentiary and continental prison reform. As a penal reformer, Adshead supported the system of Francis Lieber and defended the separate system.With a frontispiece and other plates, one folding. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally smart with some shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, light marks to boards. Previous ownership ink inscription to front free endpaper, undated. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to occasional leaf, pages otherwise bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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