A Treatise on the Police of London; 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. The First American Edition. By a Magistrate Acting for the Counties of Middlesex, Surry, Kent, and Essex ...
- Singerman ID
- supp1052
- Year
- 1798
- Entry
- [Colquhoun, Patrick]. A Treatise on the Police of London; 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. The First American Edition. By a Magistrate Acting for the Counties of Middlesex, Surry, Kent, and Essex ... Philadelphia: Printed for Benjamin Davies, by Henry Sweitzer, 1798. xiv, [5], 342, xxiv p.
- Author/Editor
- [Colquhoun, Patrick]
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA
- Holdings
- In most academic libraries
- Title
- A Treatise on the Police of London; 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. The First American Edition. By a Magistrate Acting for the Counties of Middlesex, Surry, Kent, and Essex ...
- Language
- English
- Printer/Publisher
- Printed for Benjamin Davies, by Hnery Sweitzer
- Notes
- Contains mean-spirited narrative about rascally Jewish dealers and passers of counterfeit coinage, petty thieves and fences for purloined property, also similar low risk criminal activity prompting a wholesale condemnation of the Jews as a "debauched" and "depraved race" (pp. 30-31, 37, 87-93, 97, 122-24, 134, etc.). Evans 33538 (for the more common edition with xii preliminary pages; compiler saw an unrecorded variant edition containing the author’s "Advertisement" forming pp. [xiii]-xiv, at MWA.
- Collection
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Chronological File, 1676 to 1900
[Colquhoun, Patrick], “A Treatise on the Police of London; 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. The First American Edition. By a Magistrate Acting for the Counties of Middlesex, Surry, Kent, and Essex ...”, Judaica Americana II, accessed September 16, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/singerman/item/49005