LOT 3170
23rd July 2025
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LOT 3170
[COLQUHOUN, Patrick.] A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis, Explaining the Various Crimes and Misdemeanours Which at Present are Felt as a Pressure Upon the Community. London: H. Fry for C. Dilly, 1796. First edition, 8vo (209 x 126mm.) Title, 1 folding table. (Occasional browning, lacking half-title.) Contemporary marbled calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (minor scuffing, joints splitting at head of spine). Note: a scarce first printing of Colquhoun’s work on policing. In 1798, along with Jeremy Bentham, Colquhoun devised a method of utilitarian preventative policing when he established the Marine Police Force on the River Thames.
Estimate: £200 – £300
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