An Argument Legal and Historical
For the Legislative Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic.
By
Dr Frederick Richard Lees

 

Publisher: William Tweedie, 1856, first edition. Published as the Alliance First Prize Essay (this would be The United Kingdom Alliance for the Suppression of the Traffic in all Intoxicating Liquors).  Bound in green embossed cloth with titles in gilt on the spine. Very good condition with bumps to the head and foot of the spine, bumped corners, occasional marks, mainly clean and bright.
The author presents many arguments for banning the liquor trade, and makes extensive reference to restrictive legislation in North America, the Maine Law, etc.
Octavo, 20 cm tall (7.75 inches), xvi, 317 pages, plus one page poem by Cowper and 2 pages Alliance advertisements.

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