[Braddon, Laurence (d. 1724)]

Estimate

300 - 500 GBP

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Description

Particular answers to the most material objections made to a proposal... for relieving, reforming, and employing all the poor of Great Britain. [London?], 1722

8vo (221 x 135mm.), [2], x, 9-72, 19, [1], 73-104pp., illustration: woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, binding: contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments

Literature

Goldsmiths 6148; Kress 3457

Catalogue Note

first edition. Braddon, a lawyer who devoted most of his energies to investigating the death of Arthur Capel, earl of Essex, who was found dead in the Tower of London in 1683, also wrote two works relating to the constitutions of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen, and another work on poverty, The miseries of the poor are a national sin, shame and danger (1717). As in all copies of the present work Two different methods for relieving... all the poor, within the weekly bills, consider'd is inserted between pp.72 and 73 of Particular answers.