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 for their prevention. By a magistrate acting for the counties of Middlesex, Surry, Kent, and Essex. --For the City and Liberty of Westminster --and for the Liberty of the Tower of London. [Five lines of Latin quotation].

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Author / Creator:Colquhoun, Patrick, 1745-1820. author
Uniform title:Treatise on the police of the metropolis
Edition:The first American edition.
Imprint:Philadelphia : Printed for Benjamin Davies, numbers 68, High-Street. By Henry Sweitzer, numbers 85, Race-Street, MDCCXCVIII. [1798]
Description:xiv,[6],342,xxiv [2]p., [1]folded leaf ; 8⁰.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10286109
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Other authors / contributors:Davies, Benjamin, active 1774-1806 bookseller.
Sweitzer, Henry, 1771-1807 printer.
Notes:Attributed to Patrick Colquhoun in the Dictionary of national biography.
With a half-title.
Edition statement transposed; precedes "By a magistrate .." on title page.
Reproduction of original from National Library of Scotland.
Evans, 33538
English Short Title Catalog, W28374.
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.