'Poverty, Mendicity and Crime; or, The Facts, Examinations, &c upon which the Report was founded, Pr...
'Poverty, Mendicity and Crime; or, The Facts, Examinations, &c upon which the Report was founded, Presented to the House of Lords by W. A. Miles, Esq. To which is added a Dictionary of the Flash or Cant Language, known to every Thief and Beggar. Edited by H. Brandon, Esq.', London: Shaw and Sons, 1839, first edition, with manuscript revisions for a proposed second edition, [1840?]
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1839-[1840?]
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0.05 metres of textual material (1 box) - octavo volume in original soft brown cloth cover
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The first edition of 'Poverty, Mendicity and Crime' was published on the eve of Miles' departure for Australia. It is a compilation of his writings under the editorship of Henry Brandon, containing Miles' Report on Prison Discipline, presented by him to the House of Lords, on the 5th of June, 1835, together with the information, letters and papers...
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'Poverty, Mendicity and Crime; or, The Facts, Examinations, &c upon which the Report was founded, Presented to the House of Lords by W. A. Miles, Esq. To which is added a Dictionary of the Flash or Cant Language, known to every Thief and Beggar. Edited by H. Brandon, Esq.', London: Shaw and Sons, 1839, first edition, with manuscript revisions for a...
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General note
Another copy of the first edition of this title is held by the State Library of New South Wales at Call No. T0014851.
Signature / Inscriptions
Title page has manuscript inscription: ‘Second Editn. Fair copy’, with ‘Second Edition / with considerable additions’ added beneath the editor’s name.
Attributions / Conjectures
The vendor suggests that ‘Henry Brandon’ was possibly a pseudonym employed by William Augustus Miles.
Date note
Amongst the additional material for the proposed second edition is a reference to an 1840 case of a public execution.
Description source
Title taken from the front cover, stamped in gilt.
Object History
From a deceased estate near Cheriton in Kent, England.
Contextual Information
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Purchased from Richard M. Ford Ltd, Antiquarian Bookseller, London, November 2016
Administrative / Biographical history
William Augustus Miles (1798-1851) served as a commissioner of police and police magistrate in Sydney during the 1840s. It is thought that Miles was an illegitimate son of William IV, the monarch supporting Miles’ career and the inscription on his gravestone, in the old Camperdown cemetery, featuring a crown and the words: ‘Sweet nature gave a Prin...
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9gkRb5q9
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1001974
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