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Lot 150
BENTHAM, JEREMY Group of six pamphlets by Bentham bound together consisting of Draught of a new plan for the organization...
consisting of Draught of a new plan for the organization of the judicial establishment in France... [London]: March, 1790; Emancipate your Colonies! London: Robert Heward, 1830; Bentham's Radical reform bill with extracts from the reasons. London: E. Wilson: 1819; Defence of Usury... New York; Theodore Foster, 1837; Article Eight of the Westminster Review...with the outline of a code by Jeremy Bentham, Esq. London: T. C. Hansard, 1827; Letters to the Count Toreno on the Proposed Penal Code... London: Effingham Wilson, 1822. Bound in modern black cloth; Together with Panopticon; or the Inspection-House... Dublin: T. Payne, 1791. The abridged edition. Modern black cloth. iv, 140 pp. Both volumes have discreet Bar Association stamps. The Panopticon is slightly mispaginated (a printer's error). The pamphlets are generally in sound condition, most uncut.
Bentham's was profoundly committed to the idea of the Panopticon, a prison based in part on his Utilitarianist principles, although even in his own time its inhumane (and totalitarian) aspects were decried.
C The New York City Bar Association
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