Humane Society. For the recovery of persons apparently dead by drowning. : Instituted in the year 1774.

  • Royal Humane Society (London, England)
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[1787?]
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Humane Society. For the recovery of persons apparently dead by drowning. : Instituted in the year 1774. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Publication/Creation

[London] : [Humane Society], [1787?]

Physical description

38 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf ; 12mo (18 cm)

Notes

Title from half-title.
Dated on internal evidence: Society's resolution on p. 15; letter on p. 24.
The final leaf contains advertisements for two publications, the first for Dodsley, Cadell, Dilly and Dennis, and the second for Cadell.
Not in ESTC.
Copy 1. Original glazed blue wrappers. With paper label annotated by Thomas Adams. This pamphlet is one of a group of items which were part of the papers of Thomas Adams (d. 1813), solicitor, agent for the Duke of Northumberland and owner of Eshott Hall, south of Alnwick (purchased in 1783). They were sold at auction in Carlisle by Thomson Roddick & Medcalf auctioneers in July & August 2008.

References note

ESTC T20651
Hanson, 2921

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