A visit to the Philadelphia prison : being an accurate and particular account of the wise and humane administration adopted in every part of that building; containing also an account of the gradual reformation, and present improved state, of the penal laws of Pennsylvania: with observations on the impolicy and injustice of capital punishments. : In a letter to a friend. / By Robert J. Turnbull. ; [Three lines of quotations].
| Author/creator | Turnbull, Robert J. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : Printed by Budd and Bartram, no. 58, North Second Street, M.DCC.XCVI. [1796] |
| Description | iv, 108 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf ; 21 cm (8vo) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 31321. ^A478749 |
| General note | "The following sheets originally made their appearance in the Charleston Daily gazette."--Preface. |
| General note | "Abstracts taken from general statements of the amount of labour done by each convict, and at what occupation, in the Prison for the City and County of Philadelphia ... together with the amount of provisions, clothes, &c. furnished each convict ..."--folded leaf at end. |
| References | Evans 31321 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 31321). |
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