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Main Author: La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duc de, 1747-1827
Format: eBook
Language:English
Series:Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 30674.
Subjects:
Walnut Street Prison (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Prisons > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Criminal law > Pennsylvania.
Correctional institutions > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Online Access:Evans Digital Edition
Description
Item Description:Attributed to François-ALexandre-Frédéric La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt in: Teeters, N.K. The cradle of the penitentiary, 1955, page 36. This edition and one in French, Des prisons de Philadelphie (Philadelphia, 1796), were registered for copyright, Jan. 2, 1796 by Moreau de Saint-Méry. Cf. Evans.
Table of criminal statistics, pages [42]-43.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:46 pages ; 21 cm. (octavo)
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Place of Publication:United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.