first edition Softcover
1846 · Boston
by HOWE, Samuel Gridley
Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1846. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Lower edges slightly chewed, else fine in very good or better wrappers with a short split along the back joint. A very complimentary report on the Pennsylvania prison system, in which prisoners were completely isolated, written by a noted philanthropist who had grown disillusioned with the progress reports issued on the Massachusetts prison system by the Boston Prison Discipline Society. (Inventory #: 75330)