Philadelphia: Printed for Benjamin Davies, no. 68, High-Street. By Henry Sweitzer, no. 85, Race-Street, 1798. Title page continues: "The First American Edition. 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." Narrow octavo, bound in in later crimson buckram with gilt-lettered spine labels; xiv, [6], 342, xxiv pp.; with the half-title leaf and a folding table. Bit of rubbing and mild fraying to the joints; chipping to the spine labels with loss of letters to the one at the foot (a former owner's name?); inner hinges cracked but secure; contents uniformly tanned with a few occasional small spots and stains; contemporary ink owner name at top of title page; in all, VG externally, internally mainly fine. Loosely laid in is a leaf from The Examiner, Jan. 12, 1812, discussing "Police Magistrates and Officers". The first American edition of this pioneering study of crime and punishment, poverty, penology, etc. First published London, 1796, this was the only American edition of the time. Colquhoun was a prolific writer on crime and the administration of justice and was surprisingly progressive in his views on such things as the utility of capital punishment and the meting out of draconian sentences for minor crimes. At the same time, however, the work includes long and virulently anti-Semitic passages on the Jews of London, a "superstitious" and "depraved race" who have established a "fraudulent" and "mischievous intercourse all over the country" in the sale of stolen goods. Nevertheless, Colquhoun's Treatise is at the very least invaluable as a work of sociology, providing a vast, lively and assiduously (if not always wholly accurately) documented examination of London's late-Georgian underworld, its thieves, counterfeiters, prostitutes, pickpockets, highwaymen, river pilferers, swindlers and low Gamblers, Black Legs, Glutmen, fraudulent and dissolute Publicans, Rakes and Giddy Young Men, and a host of others, constituting a "shocking catalogue of human depravity." ESTC W28374; Evans 33538; Beal 1010; Harvard Law Catalog 428.

London: Unwin, 1896. Light green cloth. pp xx, (319). Bit of tanning to spine, endpapers, and page edges, else fine no owner marks. The Rev. Morrison, who was Rector of St. Marylebone in London from 1908 to 1943, served as a Chaplain in Her Majesty's Prison Service from 1883 to 1898 and derived from his prison experience an interest in criminology and penology which found expression in his two books on adult and juvenile crime, respectively, as well as his numerous contributions to periodicals and newspapers. " - Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Spring 1964. This book by this pioneer criminologist was the standard one for many years. "The work of William Douglas Morrison was characterized by the demand for cautious interpretation of criminal statistics, the insistence on understanding the conditions surrounding the data before drawing inferences from them, the reliance upon empirical confirmation whenever possible, the emphasis placed upon the study of the offender as well as the offense, the enunciation of what was tantamount to a theory of differential association, disapproval of capital punishment and dissatisfaction with imprisonment as a solution to the problem, the stress upon classification of offenders in an effort to individualize treatment, the rejection of intemperance and economic conditions as the primary causes of crime, and the analysis of criminal behavior as the result of certain major individual and social factors working interdependently relatively free of free-will. The validity of his ideas is attested to by the fact that they have become an integral part of the contemporary criminological scene." - Gerald D. Robin, in the same journal. ; Octavo

London: Routledge, 2002. Second printing of the 1965 edition, which was itself a facsimile reprint of the 1930 Routledge & Kegan Paul edition, with a new preface. Quarto, dark blue cloth. pp (2), (lxvi), 543. Illustrations, index. Two shallow bruises to edges of front cover; ink name and date at top of half-title page; else fine. "The Elizabethan Underworld collects together sixteen of the more important tracts from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries dealing with the lives and misdoings of thieves, rogues, and tricksters. For the most part the original authors were men of experience - watchmen, constables and those who drifted into the London underworld and learnt its tricks. A thorough introduction contributes a full historical background and outlines contemporary social contexts. " Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required. 041528676x

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1957. Two volumes, reddish cloth. pp xliv, 500; (viii), 501-1196 + frontispiece portrait in each volume. Index, chronology. Spines a little sunned; bookplate in Hebrew in each volume; VG+ otherwise. Slipcase has some sunning and a bit of wear to open edges but is VG generally. "Louis Marshall (December 14, 1856 - September 11, 1929) was an American corporate, constitutional and civil rights lawyer as well as a mediator and Jewish community leader who worked to secure religious, political, and cultural freedom for all minority groups. Among the founders of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), he defended Jewish and minority rights and, though not a Zionist, he supported the Balfour Declaration. He was also a conservationist, and the force behind re-establishing the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, which evolved into today's State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF)." - Wikipedia. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required. ; Tall octavo