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 ...

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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: Patrick Colquhoun
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 ...
Printer/Publisher: Printed for Benjamin Davies, by Hnery Sweitzer
Language: English
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.