Description: I have here for sale a book entitled A TREATISE ON THE POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS; containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at present, injured and endangered and suggesting Remedies for their Prevention, by P Colquhoun, Magistrate. It is a seventh edition published by J Mawman, Cadell and Davies, etc in 1806. Divided into 20 chapters. Patrick Colquhoun (14 March 1745 – 25 April 1820) was a Scottish merchant, statistician, magistrate, and founder of the first regular preventive police force in England, the Thames River Police. He also served as Lord Provost of Glasgow 1782 to 1784. Historians of policing credit Colquhoun's innovation as a critical development leading up to Robert Peel’s "new" police three decades later. Along with the Bow Street Runners, the Marine Police Force was eventually absorbed by the Metropolitan Police in the 19th century. Colquhoun's utilitarian approach to the problem – using a cost-benefit argument to obtain support from businesses standing to benefit – allowed him to achieve what Henry and John Fielding failed for their Bow Street detectives. Unlike the stipendiary system at Bow Street, the river police were full-time, salaried officers prohibited from taking private fees.Bound in full leather tree calf hardboards with gilt bands and a maroon leather title block and gilt lettering to the spine. Front board and endpaper are detached. Leather on the rear board is lifting and has a couple of tears. Wear to board edges. Ink signature to front endpaper. Small ink stain to page edges, but otherwise all pages are clean but sunned. Firmly bound. 655 pages + index. 22 x 14 cm. We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a wide range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if and anything else takes your fancy. Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.
Price: 49.99 GBP
Location: Whitegate, Cheshire
End Time: 2024-11-13T19:55:05.000Z
Shipping Cost: 39.86 GBP
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Return postage will be paid by: Buyer
Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted
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Binding: Leather
Non-Fiction Subject: History & Military
Language: English
Region: Europe
Original/Reproduction: Original
Author: P COLQUHOUN
Publisher: J MAWMAN, CADELL AND DAVIES ET AL
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1806
