£400
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Auction: 9 October 2019 at 12:00 BST
Observations on the Poor Laws, on the Present State of the Poor and on Houses of Industry. London: J. Wilkie, 1775. 8vo, later quarter calf, lacking half-title [ESTC T60827]; Creed, Sir James [also Charles Gray & William Hay] An Impartial Examination of a Pamphlet Intitled Considerations on Several Proposals lately made for the better Maintenance of the Poor. London: [s.n.], 1752. 8vo, later quarter calf [ESTC T3966]; Alison, William Putney Reply to the Pamphlet Entitled Proposed Alteration of the Scottish Poor Law... Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1840. 8vo, blue cloth gilt, stamp of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Public Library to title-page; [Parliament of England and Wales] An Ordinance of the Lords & Commons Assembled in Parliament, for the constant Reliefe and Imployment of the Poore... London: John Wright, 1647. 8vo, without wrappers [ESTC R204654] (4)