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The Westminster Review January-July 1825
by Various
- Used
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
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London, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825. Volume III. Hardcover. Fair. [4], iv, 551, [1] p. 22 cm. Title page vignette. Quarter leater with paper boards. Spine nearly detached. Corners worn. Blue pencil crayon notation and underlining on p. 124. Spotting on endpapers and up to p. iv.
Review founded in 1824 by Jeremy Bentham as the official organ for radicals in response to conservative journals. Articles: recollections of the life of Lord Byron 1808-1814; project of a new penal code for the state of Louisiana (Edward Livingstone); selection of Irish melodies; contagion and sanitary laws (plague, evils of quarantine laws); the Book of the Church by Robert Southey; liberty of the press; Friedrich von Schlegel; magnetism; Italy; prison and prison discipline; emigration (Australia, Van Diemen's Land, Upper Canada); etc.
Review founded in 1824 by Jeremy Bentham as the official organ for radicals in response to conservative journals. Articles: recollections of the life of Lord Byron 1808-1814; project of a new penal code for the state of Louisiana (Edward Livingstone); selection of Irish melodies; contagion and sanitary laws (plague, evils of quarantine laws); the Book of the Church by Robert Southey; liberty of the press; Friedrich von Schlegel; magnetism; Italy; prison and prison discipline; emigration (Australia, Van Diemen's Land, Upper Canada); etc.
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- Attic Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 110984
- Title
- The Westminster Review January-July 1825
- Author
- Various
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Volume III
- Publisher
- Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1825
- Keywords
- History, Jeremy Bentham, Lord Byron, Louisiana, Prisons, Prison reform, Edward Livingstone, Disease, Sanitation, Public health, Plague, Quarantine, Robert Southey, Friedrich von Schlegel, Magnetism, Italy, Emigration, Upper Canada, Van Diemen's Land, Aust
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