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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. /

Title
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. / By P. Colquhoun ...
Author
Colquhoun, Patrick, 1745-1820.
Publication
London: : Printed by H. Baldwin and Son ... for Joseph Mawman ... successor to Mr. Dilly., 1800.

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Description
[16], xvi, 655, [33] p., [2] folded leaves; 22 cm. (8vo)
Subject
  • Crime and criminals > London
  • London (England) > Police
Note
  • Author's name follows edition statement on t.p.
  • 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 p. [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 p. [10] at front: 2. This printing has the same printer's colophon on p. 655 and on the final page of the index.
  • HRC has a copy of each printing. Copy 1 and 3 are the first printing; copy 2 is the latter printing.
  • With a half-title.
  • Page [16] at front, and p. [1] & [33] at end are blank.
  • Advertisement on p. [15] at front.
  • Index: p. [2]-[32] at end.
  • The folded leaves are tables.
Indexed In (note)
  • ESTC
LCCN
17004890
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library