AN INQUIRY INTO THE ALLEGED TENDENCY OF THE SEPARATION OF CONVICTS, ONE FROM THE OTHER, TO PRODUCE DISEASE AND DERANGEMENT. BY A CITIZEN OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Philadelphia: E.C. & J. Biddle, 1849. 160pp, disbound. Small numerical notation at head of title page. Very Good.

Sabin attributes authorship to Packard, a "man of many interests" who was a lawyer, educator, editorial secretary of the American Sunday School Union, and editor of the Journal of Prison Discipline [DAB]. Here he examines the question, "social or solitary labor by day-- which is the better?"
FIRST EDITION. BEAL 4475. Sabin 58108. Not in Eberstadt, Decker, Harv. Law Cat., Marke. Item #16170

Price: $175.00

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