A treatise on the police of London [microform] ; 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 a magistrate acting for the counties of Middlesex, Surry, Kent, and Essex. --For the City and Liberty of Westminster --and for the Liberty of the Tower of London. ; [Five lines of Latin quotation].
- Author
- Colquhoun, Patrick, 1745-1820
- Published
- Philadelphia : Printed for Benjamin Davies, no. 68, High-Street. By Henry Sweitzer, no. 85, Race-Street, MDCCXCVIII. [1798]
- Edition
- The first American edition.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 6 unnumbered pages, 342, xxiv 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf ; 22 cm (8vo)
Online Version
- Series
- Subject(s)
- Note
- Attributed to Patrick Colquhoun in the Dictionary of national biography.
Edition statement transposed; precedes "By a magistrate ..." on title page.
ONLINE VERSION AVAILABLE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS. - Other Forms
- Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series.
- Reproduction Note
- Microopaque. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1955-1983. 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 33538).
- Reviewed/Cited In
- Evans, C. American bibliography, 33538
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