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/creator Colquhoun, Patrick
Other author Mawman, Joseph, 1759-1827, bookseller.
Other author H. Baldwin and Son, printer.
Format Book
EditionThe sixth edition, corrected and considerably enlarged.
Publication InfoLondon : Printed by H. Baldwin and Son ... for Joseph Mawman ... successor to Mr. Dilly, 1800.
Description16 unnumbered pages, xvi, 655 pages, 33 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered folded leaves ; 22 cm (8vo)
Supplemental ContentInternet Archive, New York Public Library
Subjects

Variant title Binder's spine title: Police of London
Physical medium8vo
Contents General view of existing evils -- On the system of punishments : theoretically considered -- The cause and progress of small thefts -- On burglaries and highway robberies -- On cheats and swindlers -- On gaming and the lottery -- On the coinage of counterfeit money -- On river plunder -- On plunder in the dock-yards, &c. -- On the receivers of stolen goods -- On the origin of criminal offences -- The origin of crimes continued : female prostitution -- The origin of crimes continued : state of the poor -- On the detection of offenders -- On the prosecution of offenders -- On the system of punishments : considered practically -- Criminal police of the Metropolis -- Proposed system of criminal police -- Municipal police of the Metropolis -- Conclusion.
Local noteJoyner Rare copy is of the first printing with press figure on page [11] at front and no printer's colophon on page 655. Copy lacks half-title. Bound in recent quarter-calf over marbled boards, endpapers added. Illegible autograph on title page, dated July 1813.
General noteAuthor's name follows edition statement on title page.
General noteDate in roman numerals.
General noteThere 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 page [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 page 655 and on the final page of the index.
General noteWith a half-title.
General notePage [16] at front, and pages [1] & [33] at end are blank.
General noteAdvertisement on p. [15] at front.
General noteIndex: pages [2]-[32] at end.
General noteThe folded leaves are tables.
General noteSignatures: A⁸a⁸B-Tt⁸*S⁸*Tt⁸
References Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, no. 18054.
References ESTC T140606
Other formsAlso issued online.
Acquisitions source Joyner Rare copy purchased from The Law Book Exchange, 11/7/2022
Issued in other formOnline version: Colquhoun, Patrick, 1745-1820. Treatise on the police of the metropolis. The 6th ed., corrected and considerably enl. London : Printed by H. Baldwin and Son ... for Joseph Mawman ... successor to Mr. Dilly., 1800
Genre/formBooksellers' advertisements England London 1800.
Genre/formBookplates (Provenance)
LCCN 17004890

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