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[Comprising:] Preface; [with:] Introductory View, &c.; [and:] Extract from the proposed constitutional code, entitled official aptitude maximized, expense minimized. London: 1816; [and:] Further extract from proposed constitutional code; [and:] Defence of the economy against the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. First printed in January 1817; [and:] Defence of the economy against the Right Honourable George Rose. First printed in September 1817; [and:] Observations of Mr. Secretary Peel's House of Commons speech, 21st March 1825, introducing his police magistrate's salary raising bill. Date of order for printing, 24th March, 1825. Also on the announced judge's salary raising bill, and the pending county courts bill; [and:] Indications respecting Lord Eldon, including history of the pending judge's-salary-raising measure; [and:] Postscript; [and:] On the militia; [and:] On public account keeping.
11 parts bound together as issued, 8vo (210 × 128mm.), pp. [ii]-xxix, [i]; 22, [2]; 68; 27, [1]; 160; 62; 85, [1]; 24; 10; 13, [3] (including folding table: Constitutional Code Table of contents forming the 11th part), bound without first leaf with direction to binder and without half-title to Extract from the proposed constitutional code, also bound without final leaf (printer's imprint) of On the Militia. Short tear to fold of folding table, no loss. Contemporary straight grain navy calf, red morocco labels with gilt lettering ("Bentham's Works" and giving the volume number "17"), wide gilt raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers, joints repaired. A very good copy.
11 parts bound together as issued, 8vo (210 × 128mm.), pp. [ii]-xxix, [i]; 22, [2]; 68; 27, [1]; 160; 62; 85, [1]; 24; 10; 13, [3] (including folding table: Constitutional Code Table of contents forming the 11th part), bound without first leaf with direction to binder and without half-title to Extract from the proposed constitutional code, also bound without final leaf (printer's imprint) of On the Militia. Short tear to fold of folding table, no loss. Contemporary straight grain navy calf, red morocco labels with gilt lettering ("Bentham's Works" and giving the volume number "17"), wide gilt raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers, joints repaired. A very good copy.
First collected edition. A collection of ten papers on political and administrative reform, with a folding table and a preface. "Defence of the economy against the Right Honourable Edmund Burke" and "Defence of the economy against the Right Honourable George Rose" were separately published in The Pamphleteer in 1817 before being published together in a single volume later in the same year. Similarly, "Observations of Mr. Secretary Peel's House of Commons speech" and "Indications respecting Lord Eldon" were both published in The Pamphleteer in 1825, with separate editions appearing later that year.
Chuo O6-1; Goldsmiths’ 26063; Kress C.2446.
£600.00
