POOR LAW. Copy of the Evidence Taken and Report Made by The Assistant Poor Law Commissioners Sent to Inquire into The State of the Population of Stockport. [London:] 1842. Folio (324 x 205mm.) (Title and first leaves chipped, browned, occasional spotting.) Paper wrappers (toned). Provenance: Liverpool Public Libraries (small stamp to title). – And a quantity of approximately thirty-five disbound pamphlets and ‘Acts’, including ‘A Report From the Committee Appointed to Enquire into the State of the Goals of this Kingdom: Relating to the Fleet Prison’, 1729, 4to, and ‘A Humble Address of the House of Commons to the Queen’, 1710, single sheet, and ‘Papers, Presented to the House of Commons, Relating to the Cold Bath Fields Prison’, 1808, folio, and W. Wragg’s ‘Evidences of the Right of Exemption of the Parishioners of Mansfield from Church Rates’, 1824, 8vo, and E.Y.W. Henderson’s ‘Report on the Discipline and Management of the Military Prisons, 1867’, 1868, 8vo) (quantity).