<div class="description">
<dl><dd>Includes half t.p</dd>
<dd>Title in double line border</dd>
<dd>Engraved frontispiece on verso facing t.p</dd>
<dd>Includes index</dd>
<dd>Head-pieces; tail-pieces; initials</dd>
<dd>John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library</dd>
<dd>John Adams Library copy: minor annotations</dd>
<dd>John Adams' signature on title page: "John Adams July 1780."</dd>
<dd>John Adams Library copy has separate leather square with title embossed inserted into pages 8-9</dd>
<dd>John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Criminal law; Punishment; Capital punishment; Torture; Law reform</div>
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<dl><dd>Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di, 1738-1794</dd>
<dd>Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL</dd>
<dd>John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) BRL</dd></dl></div>
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