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• Author/Creator:Reid, Robert, 1774-1856.
  
• Title:Observations on the structure of hospitals for the treatment of lunatics, and on the general principles on which the cure of insanity may be most successfully conducted : to which is annexed, an account of the intended establishment of a lunatic asylum at Edibnurgh [sic] : illustrated by five engravings.
  
• Published/Created:Edinburgh : Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. and sold by Archibald Constable & Co. Edinburgh; and by Constable, Hunger, Park, and Hunter, Booksellers, Ludgate-Hill, London, 1809.
  
• Physical Description:viii, [2], 80 p., [5] folded leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 27 cm.
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: RC450.S2 R81 1809+ Oversize
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy inscribed on front cover: For the Duke of Buccleugh. Has bound with it: Address to the public, respecting the establishment of a lunatic asylum at Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 1806. Plates for this title are bound after the bound with. Building fund solicitation pamphlet, [4] p., laid in.
  
• Notes:Caption title: Observations on the structure of hospitals for the treatment of lunatics, &c. by Robert Reid, architect.
  Half-title: Observations on hospitals, for the cure of insanity.
  Engravings by Kirkwood & Sons; after Robert Reid.
  "Observations on the general treatment of lunatics, as a branch of medical police, by Andrew Duncan": p. 13-29.
  "Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the state of lunatics": p. 31-70.
  "An account of the establishment of an asylum for lunatics lately erected near Bristol, by Ed. Long Fox": p. 71-80.
  
• Variant and related titles:Observations on hospitals, for the cure of insanity
  
• Format:Book
• Subjects:Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
  Psychiatric hospitals--Scotland.
  Mental illness--Treatment--Great Britain--19th century.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1809.
  Edinburgh (Scotland)--Imprints--Specimens--1809.
  Engraving--Specimens--1809.
  Buccleugh, Duke of--Provenance.
  James Ballantyne and Co.--Printer.
  
• Also listed under:Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828.
  Fox, Edward Long, 1761-1835.
  Reid, Robert, 1774-1856, ill.
  Kirkwood & Sons, engraver.