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Millbank penitentiary, London. Engraving by J. Tingle after T. H. Shepherd.

Westminster Bridewell prison: ground floor plan. Engraving.

Third vindication of the General Penitentiary : showing that there is no ground whatever for supposing that the situation of that prison had any share in producing the late disease among the prisoners confined there. Being an answer to some observations contained in a work published by P. Mere Latham, entitled "An account of the disease lately prevalent at the General Penitentiary." / by George Holford.

An account of the general penitentiary at Millbank ... : To which is added, an appendix, on the form and construction of prisons ... / by George Holford.

A statement of the transactions on occasion of the extraordinary sickness which has lately occured at the General Penitentiary at Milbank / [A. Copland Hutchison].

An inquiry, whether crime and misery are produced or prevented, by our present system of prison discipline / Illustrated by descriptions of the Borough Compter. Tothill Fields. The jails at St. Albans, and at Guildford. The jail at Bury. The Maison de force at Ghent. The Philadelphia prison. The penitentiary at Millbank. And the proceedings of the ladies' committee at Newgate. By Thomas Fowell Buxton.

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A statement of the transactions on occasion of the extraordinary sickness which has lately occured at the General Penitentiary at Milbank / [A. Copland Hutchison].