Better Maintenance of the Poor

£250.00

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[004108] [Gray, Charles] Considerations on Several Proposals, Lately Made, for the Better Maintenance of the Poor. With an Appendix, Containing Two Heads of Bills for the Better Government, Maintenance, and Employment of the Poor, Within the City and Liberty of Westminster Etc. London: C. Davis and M. Cooper, 1752. Second Edition. 4to. Hardback. Pamphlet. Good. [2], iii-vi, 33pp, [1]. Later half calf and marbled paper over boards, title and date in gilt to spine, marbled endpapers

Back strip reglued, chipped to spine ends and joints, rubbed to extremities. Internally the title is browned, name of author to head, text lightly browned, but fairly clean

Printed by William Bowyer, and first published a year earlier without the appendix

Thirteen locations worldwide in ESTC. Goldsmiths 8750; Higgs 337