Shelfmark
Fk.6.18(13) (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Fm.7.05(14) (Copy 2)
Title
An account of several work-houses for employing and maintaining the poor; setting forth the rules by which they are governed, their great usefulness to the publick, and in particular to the parishes where they are erected : As also of several charity-schools for promoting work, and labour.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed and sold by Joseph Downing, in Bartholomew-Close near West-Smithfield, M.DCC.XXV [1725].
Physical description
vi, 112p ; 20cm. (8vo.)
Note
With an alphabetical list of work-houses.
Citation/references note
Goldsmiths' 6402; ESTC T4233; Hanson, 3522
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. New Haven, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1974. 1 reel ; 35mm. (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature ; reel 386, no. 6402).
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 7269, no.14 ).
Additional physical form available
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Circular armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington, recording donation to Eton College in 1731; armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Binding
[Copy 1] 19th? century quarter brown calf; plain blue card boards; four raised bands.
Binding
[Copy 2] 18th century brown calf quarter-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; four raised bands; red sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] Bound with fourteen other items.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] Ms. contents list on flyleaf.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] Previously: Dm.6.18.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] Pencil inside front board: "Checked March 1924".
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Bound in a volume of pamphlets; with spine title, "Theolog tracts".
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Previously Do.7.7
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Ms. contents list on front endpapers.
Subject
Workhouses Great Britain.
Subject
Almshouses Early works to 1800 England.
Subject
Charity-schools Early works to 1800 England.
Subject
Poor Employment Directories.
Subject
Charities Early works to 1800 Great Britain.
Added entry--name
Downing, Joseph, ? - d. 1734 printer.
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B24611