Search Results: Law from Garrett Scott, Bookseller (ABAA)

[Sanbornton, N. H.: n. p., 1815?]. First edition.

Nearly split along the conjugate fold (but just hanging on at the head of the spine), old folds and some light browning and dust-soiling; in good to very good condition.

Two formerly conjugate leaves (9.25 x 5.88 inches) on wove paper, [2] facing pages of text.

"It shall be the duty of all the members to exert their influence to suppress immorality of every description, particularly Sabbath-breaking, Intemperance, Profaneness, and Falsehood; to endeavor to reclaim the immoral by friendly admonition; to aid and support Tithingmen, and all civil officers, in the faithful execution of the laws; and finally to encourage the rising generation of in a constant attendance on public worship, in habits of sobriety, morality, and industry."

A rare and moderately late instance of a local New England Society for the Reformation of Morals, intended to combat the scourges of intemperance and Sabbath-breaking, as well as support of the elected Tithingman in his… Read More

Philadelphia: Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, 1835. First edition.

Some soiling and foxing and light staining and wear; a good to very good copy.

Original printed blue wrappers (8.75 x 5.38 inches), 24 pages.

A presentation copy, with a semi-legible inscription in ink on the front wrapper, "To Jos. Ficher [?] with the regards of his frnd. & srvt. Francis Lieber."

"The mere absence of crime, therefore, is neither a proof of a state of morality--for it may originate from very inauspicious causes--nor is the increase of crime of itself a proof of increased degeneracy."

An early attempt at criminology and reform, and an early work from the important immigrant German-American legal and political scholar Lieber, who had earlier assisted Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in collecting data on American prison system and published a translation of their work in 1833. This work includes a glance at the effects of the growth of the American popular press on… Read More