[Rarebooks] FOR SALE: IMPORTANT WORK ON PRISON REFORM

[Norman Kane]

SAMPSON, M[ARMADUKE] B.  RATIONALE OF CRIME, AND ITS APPROPRIATE TREATMENT; BEING A TREATISE ON CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE CONSIDERED IN RELATION TO CEREBRAL ORGANIZATION. . . . WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY E[LIZA] W. FARNHAM, MATRON OF MT. PLEASANT STATE PRISON . . .  N. Y. & Phila.: Appleton, 1846.  First US edition.  Original cloth, nicely rebacked with cloth & leather label, new end papers, nice copy. Phrenological illustrations. Xxiv (including 2 leaves of advts), 177 pages + one leaf of advts. (Eliza Farnham "was a 19th-century American novelist, feminist, abolitionist & activist for prison reform . . . She strongly believed in the use of phrenology to treat prisoners ... as matron of the women's ward at Sing Sing Prison, she also advocated using music & kindness in the rehabilitation of female prisoners.")     $250.00    

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