Description
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [ii], 61, [1]. Extracted from a volume. Small tear and minor creasing to edge of title-page, final leaf loose.
Account of the Management of the Poor in Hamburgh, Since the Year 1788. In a Letter to Some Friends of the Poor in Great Britain.
- Edinburgh: [s.n.] 1795
- ESTC T18796.
£200
Notes
The first edition of this account of the merchant and social reformer Casper Voght's pioneering General Institute for the Poor of Hamburg, which he founded in 1788. His method was a turn away from the ecclesiastical provision of poor relief as a moral and spiritual opportunity towards a focus on economic and medical needs, and was an immeidate and influential success, though not always easy to replicate because of its dependence on effective volunteers. Further printings followed in London and Dublin the next year.
