[Begging:] [Van Beughem, C.A.F.:] [De Pape, L.J.E.:]

Suppressio mendicitatis,

      Publisher: Gandavi [Ghent], è Typographia Philippi Gimblet & Fratrum [...] [typis Petri de Goesin] 1778 [n.d., but 1778?] 2 works in 1, large 12mo., pp. 24; 12. Attractive printed border to first title-page, vignette to second. Headpiece and decorative first initial to each work. Light to medium browning, text block starting to loosen from binding at top joint, very good copies, bound in contemporary half-vellum and speckled pasteboards. First editions of respectively a proposal for a programme to deal with the vast task of providing, following the abolition of begging in Ghent, for the sustenance of two thousand (20%) of a population of ten thousand people; and a poem celebrating the abolition. The poem, written by the professor of poetry at the royal college of Ghent, notes the turn from "vain and fictitious things" (the wrong welfare provision) to "true Mercy". For another work relating to this abolition, see our stock number [1170]. Vanderhaeghen 'Bibliographie Gantoise' 4972, 4778. Neither work in OCLC FirstSearch.