The reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor. Vol. II [-III].
Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor
Category
Books
Date
1800 - 1802
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3199079
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2-3 ; 12mo. Accompanied by vol.1, third edition (1802). Vol. 2 contains 4p. bound in between pp. 362 & 363 headed 'Process of making bread with all the bran added, ...", with colophon: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Cleveland Row, St. James. Provenance: eighteenth-century crest bookplate with motto: Nil deperandum. Thomas Anson Esqr. Shugborough [i.e. Thomas Anson, created Viscount Anson & Baron Soberton, 1806 (1767-1818)]. Binding: early nineteenth-century plain sheep; gold ruled spine; gold lettered black spine label: Reports on the poor / ...
Makers and roles
Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor Sir Thomas Bernard (1750-1818) 3rd Baronet Bernard, of Nettleham