[ Baron von Voght; Pamphlet ] Account of the Management of the Poor in Hamburgh, between the Years 1788 and 1794. [Titel continued below]

Author: 
Baron von Voght [ Caspar Voght (1752 – 1839), later Caspar Reichsfreiherr von Voght ], German merchant and social reformer .
Publication details: 
Lonodn, 1818
£120.00
SKU: 22603

[Titlepage text continued ] In a Letter to Some Friends of the Poor in Great Britain. | By Baron von Voght. || Published in 1796. Now re-published by permission of the author. | London. || 1818." Paginated [[1 title]-27 AND 442 (title)[-469 (Table), 8vo, marbled wraps, faint foxing, good condition. [P.[2] Advertisment, recommending the re=printed work; Pp.[2]-3 (Printed) Letter to 'The Rt. Hon. George Rose, M.P." explaining the circumstances of its reprinting and signed by the following: R. Wigram, H. Charrington, J. Cotton, W. Cotton, W. Davius, I. Solly, C.H. Turner, J. Woolmore, J. Yelloly. These signatories are presumably the merchants, shipbuilders/0wners, physican etc that show up on Wikipedia. John Yelloly, in fact, was a physician who eventually published a pamphlet on the medical relief of the poor (1837). Earlier editions appeared in 1788, 1795 and 1796 and others later, represented in libraries, but now scarce. No other copy of an edition dated 1818, with Advertisement and Letter (as described above) yet traced.