TREATISE ON THE POLICE OF LONDON, FIRST AM. ED, 1798

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Colquhoun, Patrick. A TREATISE ON THE POLICE OF LONDON CONTAINING A DETAIL OF THE VARIOUS CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS By Which Public And Private Property And Security Are, At Present, Injured And Endangered; And Suggesting Remedies and Their Prevention. Philadelphia, 1798, Benjamin Davies. First American edition.Respined in full leather but retaining the original leather covered boards and original leather spine label; replaced endpapers and first and last blank; original front and rear blank retained. (1) blank; half-title; title; xii; (2) advertisement; (5) contents; 342; xxiv (index). Folding chart at p.178 "A Summary View of The Prisoners committed, tried, punished. ending in October, 1795. " Text block tight and clean; the original boards and cracked and peeled as is the original spine label, small chip out of the outer edge of the rear board; the newer leather spine is undamaged. Seminal work on the establishment of the modern police force and theories for the proactive prevention of crime. Colquhoun (1745-1820) was a pioneer in criminal law reform, following in the footsteps of Henry and John Fielding whose work in mid-1700s London formed the foundation for Colquhoun's co-establishment of the first preventative police force in England, the Thames River Police, in 1798. This in turn formed the basis for Robert Peel's establishment read more
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