Samuel Tuke

Description of the Retreat, An Institution  Near York for Insane Persons of the Society of Friends. Containing an Account of Its Origin and Progress, the Modes of Treatment, and a Statement of Cases. By Dr Samuel Tuke. 1813. Including an Introduction by Richard Hunter and Ida Macalpine and a new foreword by Kathleen Jones. Pp. 228. £20.

This is a lovely facsimile edition, first published by Process Press in 1964, of the pioneering work on the humane treatment of the insane.