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Jonas Hanway. Mezzotint by R. Dunkarton, 1780, after E. Edwards.

Jonas Hanway. Mezzotint by R. Dunkarton, 1781, after E. Edwards.

Jonas Hanway. Line engraving, 1787.

Monuments to Jonas Hanway and others in Westminster Abbey. Coloured aquatint by J. Hamble, 1812, after A. Pugin.

Jonas Hanway : founder of the Marine Society charity and policy in eighteenth-century Britain / James Stephen Taylor.

Jonas Hanway, 1712-1786 / [John Harold Hutchins].

Thoughts on the plan for a Magdalen-House for repentant prostitutes / [Anon].

Agriculture: schoolboys variously employed ploughing, digging, and raking earth. Engraving, 1783.

Letter V. To Robert Dingley, Esq.; being a proposal for the relief and employment of friendless girls and repenting prostitutes / [Jonas Hanway].

A journal of eight days journey from Postsmouth to Kingston upon Thames, through Southampton, Wiltshire, &c. : with miscellaneous thoughts, moral and religious : in a series of sixty-four letters, addressed to two ladies of the partie : to which is added, An essay on tea, considered as pernicious to health, obstructing industry, and impoverishing the nation, with an account of its growth, and great consumption in these Kingdoms, with several political reflections, and thoughts on public love : in twenty-five letters to the same ladies / by a gentleman of the partie.

A plan for establishing a charity-house, or charity-houses, for the reception of repenting prostitutes. To be called the Magdalen Charity / [Anon].

An historical account of the British trade over the Caspian Sea: with a journal of travels ... through Russia into Persia; and back ... through Russia, Germany and Holland. To which are added, the revolutions of Persia during the present century / [Jonas Hanway].

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Letter V. To Robert Dingley, Esq.; being a proposal for the relief and employment of friendless girls and repenting prostitutes / [Jonas Hanway].

Agriculture: schoolboys variously employed ploughing, digging, and raking earth. Engraving, 1783.

A plan for establishing a charity-house, or charity-houses, for the reception of repenting prostitutes. To be called the Magdalen Charity / [Anon].

An historical account of the British trade over the Caspian Sea: with a journal of travels ... through Russia into Persia; and back ... through Russia, Germany and Holland. To which are added, the revolutions of Persia during the present century / [Jonas Hanway].