1361640 THE GALLOWS, THE PRISON, AND THE POOR-HOUSE. APLEA FOR HUMANITY; SHOWING THE DEAMNDS OF CHRISTIANITY IN BEHALF OF THE CRIMINAL AND PERISHING CLASSES [INSCRIBED]. G. W. Quinby.

THE GALLOWS, THE PRISON, AND THE POOR-HOUSE. APLEA FOR HUMANITY; SHOWING THE DEAMNDS OF CHRISTIANITY IN BEHALF OF THE CRIMINAL AND PERISHING CLASSES [INSCRIBED]

Cincinnati: G. W. Quinby, 1856. Octavo; 326 pages; G; Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine; Bumping and rubbing to corners, sunning to spine, bending along spine edges, small open tear along head edge of spine, slight cocking to spine; Textblock has writing in pencil on front endpaper and pastedown, numerous newspaper clippings and pamphlets pasted to pages, light age toning; Inscribed by author to J.W. Jacob; RWO.

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Inscribed by author in 1876 to J. W. Jacob. Jacob pasted in multiple articles and pamphlets from the 1870s and 1880s on abolition of capital punishment. George Washington Quinby was a clergyman who wrote multiple works on religion and capital punishment.

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