A PLAN FOR THE STUDY OF MAN, with reference to Bills to Establish a Laboratory for the Study of the Criminal, Pauper, and Defective Classes, with a Bibliography of Child Study

166pp.+orig.wrappers bound in, ex-University of London but only their heraldic plate fr.pastedown, sm.'Depository' stamp top verso fr.free endpaper + 2 sm.round early stamps verso t.p. & end text, otherwise clean, tight & unmarked. Brown cloth binding actually near Fine with dated gilt lib.logo at bottom. University of London bindings at this time were of particularly high quality . This work was officially issued as Document No.400 by the U.S.Senate (57th Congress 1st Session). It is a curious work with some discussion of e.g. hypnotism and child study and health of college women before getting into 'Criminology' on p.76, the bibliography of child study is extensive, pp.117-157.