8vo (220 × 124 mm.), pp. [1]-11, [ii], xiv-xv, [i], 441, [3] (blank & errata). Library reference numbers in blue biro to title not affecting text, taped repair to small tear to first two leaves (title and advertisement), slight loss to corners of title, very occasional spotting. Modern library binding, red cloth. A little sunned on spine, white correction fluid to top panel partly obscuring gilt shelf number. Bookplate of Birmingham Library. A 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 R3-1; Goldsmiths’26344; not in Kress.
£225.00
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