8vo (210 × 125 mm.), pp. viii, [ii] (errata), ii, [3]-352. Slightly spotted. Later brown cloth library binding. Upper joint slightly split, small chip to tail of spine and label. Bookplate and shelfmarks of Birmingham Library and binder's ticket. A very good copy.
First edition in English. Bentham wrote two important works on reward and punishment in the 1770s and 1780s, recensions of which were first published by Dumont as Théorie des peines et des récompenses (1811), before being translated into English by Richard Smith, with some use of the original manuscript, and published as Rationale of Reward (1825) and the Rationale of Punishment (1830).
Chuo R4-1 (without the errata present in our copy); Goldsmiths’ 24656; Kress C.1376.
£250.00
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