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2 vols., 8vo (205 × 123 mm.), pp. [iv], xvi, 495, [1] (pp. 399 and 468 mispaginated); [iv], viii, 439, [1]. Occasional spotting and some pencil annotations in an early hand to margins, slightly ragged edges to a few leaves as issued. Contemporary calf, rebacked with brown morocco label, numbered direct to panel, raised bands. Board edges somewhat rubbed. Armorial bookplates and ownership inscriptions of George Warde Norman, dated 1821. A good copy.
Second edition, ex-libris George Warde Norman, a notable nineteenth-century banker and financial writer. 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). Dumont's work was instrumental in establishing Bentham's reputation as one of the foremost European writers on crime and punishment. It was subsequently 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 T4-2; not in Goldsmiths’/Kress.
£600.00
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