Description
"John Howard and the Prison World of Europe", [1849], original manuscript, 442 loose leaves, 112 x 185mm., written on the rectos only, folding cloth box lettered in gilt
Footnote
Note: William Hepworth Dixon (1821-1879), editor of the Cheltenham Journal. He contributed to the Daily News a series of articles on London prisons which led to his first serious work John Howard and the Prison World of Europe (1849) which quickly ran through three editions. The present manuscript, with numerous corrections and amendments, was evidently the one sent to the printers with various printers' marks on it. Also present is another manuscript, An Essay towards ye Reformation of Newgate and other Prisons in and about London (20 pages), a nineteenth century copy of Dr Thomas Bray's essay, in which he proposed that every criminal should be kept in a separate cell - a text referred to by Dixon in his work on John Howard.