A treatise on the police of the metropolis : containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors by which public and private property and security are, at present, injured and endangered: and suggesting remedies for their prevention. /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Printed by H. Baldwin and Son ... for Joseph Mawman ... successor to Mr. Dilly,
MDCCC. [1800]
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| Edition: | The sixth edition, corrected and considerably enlarged. |
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| Online Access: | Internet Archive, New York Public Library |
| Item Description: | Author's name follows edition statement on title page. There are at least two printings of this edition known to exist. There are variant press figures throughout each printing. One printing has its first press figure on page [11] at front: 1. This printing has a printer's colophon on the final page of the index. The other printing has its first press figure on page [10] at front: 2. This printing has the same printer's colophon on page 655 and on the final page of the index. The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy is the first printing. With a half-title. Page [16] at front, and pages [1] & [33] at end are blank. Advertisement on page [15] at front. Index: pages [2]-[32] at end. The folded leaves are tables. The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature. |
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| Physical Description: | 16 unnumbered pages, xvi, 655 pages, 33 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered folded leaves ; 22 cm (8vo) Also issued online. |