An Account of the Rise, Progress, and present State of the Magdalen Charity. To which are added, the Rev. Mr. Dodd's sermon, preached before the President, Vice-Presidents, and Governors, &c his sermon preached before His Royal Highness the Duke of York, &c. and the advice to the Magdalens, with the hymns, prayers, rules, and list of subscribers.
London]: Printed by W. Faden for the Charity, sold by J. Whiston, B. White, [etc.], 1761. 8vo (200 x 125 mm). Hand-colored engraved frontispiece of a penitent prostitute, 1p. letterpress statement of the accounts of the charity to March 1761 bound at te back, 18pp. list of the Governors and Contributors to the charity. Contemporary speckled calf. Condition : margins of frontispiece torn with loss but neatly repaired and backed onto tissue; rebacked, cornerts rounded. Provenance : Rev. C. Chapman (presentation inscirption, dated 1893, to); Magdalen Hospital. first edition of this account of a remarkable charity set up to redeem the prostitutes of london. The original idea came from Charles Dingley, and with the help of Jonas Hanway and and five others the charity, subscribed to by many of the great and good of the time, was started with premises in Prescot Street, Goodman’s Fields, London. The doors opened in August 1758 with “eight unhappy objects”, and by the time the present work was published 281 prostitutes had passed through. Success was initially mixed: 25 were “restored , and perfectly reconciled to their parents and friends”; 68 were “dismist with credit to services, &c.”, whilst 41 were “dismist for irregularities, amongst which want of temper has been [a] common evil”. Ironically, the author was later convicted of forgery and hung. Higgs. Bibliography of Economics 2559; cf. Kress 9705.
An Account of the Rise, Progress, and present State of the Magdalen Charity. To which are added, the Rev. Mr. Dodd's sermon, preached before the President, Vice-Presidents, and Governors, &c his sermon preached before His Royal Highness the Duke of York, &c. and the advice to the Magdalens, with the hymns, prayers, rules, and list of subscribers.
London]: Printed by W. Faden for the Charity, sold by J. Whiston, B. White, [etc.], 1761. 8vo (200 x 125 mm). Hand-colored engraved frontispiece of a penitent prostitute, 1p. letterpress statement of the accounts of the charity to March 1761 bound at te back, 18pp. list of the Governors and Contributors to the charity. Contemporary speckled calf. Condition : margins of frontispiece torn with loss but neatly repaired and backed onto tissue; rebacked, cornerts rounded. Provenance : Rev. C. Chapman (presentation inscirption, dated 1893, to); Magdalen Hospital. first edition of this account of a remarkable charity set up to redeem the prostitutes of london. The original idea came from Charles Dingley, and with the help of Jonas Hanway and and five others the charity, subscribed to by many of the great and good of the time, was started with premises in Prescot Street, Goodman’s Fields, London. The doors opened in August 1758 with “eight unhappy objects”, and by the time the present work was published 281 prostitutes had passed through. Success was initially mixed: 25 were “restored , and perfectly reconciled to their parents and friends”; 68 were “dismist with credit to services, &c.”, whilst 41 were “dismist for irregularities, amongst which want of temper has been [a] common evil”. Ironically, the author was later convicted of forgery and hung. Higgs. Bibliography of Economics 2559; cf. Kress 9705.
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