[Rarebooks] FS: Very scarce criminology book. London: 1819

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(CRIMINOLOGY) Roscoe, William. OBSERVATIONS ON PENAL JURISPRUDENCE , AND THE 
REFORMATION OF CRIMINALS. With an Appendix; Containing the Latest Reports of 
the State-Prisons or Penitentiaries of Philadelphia, New-York, and 
Massachusetts; and Other Documents. London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, and John 
and Arthur Arch. 1819. First edition. Lg. 8vo. iv,180,144pp. Plus (8)pp. 
publisher’s ads. With several tables (2 folding). Orig. boards, uncut, paper spine 
label.     $850.00 (trade discount allowed)
A very scarce book. Roscoe, the English author who wrote “The Life of Lorenzo 
de’ Medici,” etc., was an advocate of milder punishments as efficacious in 
reforming the criminal. The second part of this work (Appendix of 144pp.) and 
p. 83-110 of the first part, all relate to the penal system in America.

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