BENTHAM, Jeremy.

Papers relative to Codification and Public Instruction: including correspondence with the Russian Emperor, and divers constituted authorities in the American United States ...

London, J. M’Creery, 1817. [bound with:]—————. Supplement to Papers relative to Codification and Public Instruction: including correspondence with the Russian Emperor, and divers constituted authorities in the American United States … London, J Two parts in one vol., 8vo, pp. [iii]–[vi], 112, [2] list of Bentham’s works; [iv], 171, [1] blank; lacks half-title of the first work; misbinding in the first gathering of the second work; Edward Strutt’s copy, with his bookplate to the front pastedown; full contemporary calf, spine blind-stamped in compartments, marbled endpapers, with a gilt morocco lettering-piece to spine; a fine copy. First edition of both parts. The Papers contain early indications of a train of thought which was eventually to lead to Bentham’s great Constitutional Code and which was to occupy him for the rest of his life. They consist mainly of letters from Bentham, written from 1811 to 1815, offering his own services as a codifier, especially to America and Russia.Provenance: from the library of Edward Strutt, first Baron Belper (1801–1880), student of Lincoln’s Inn and the Inner Temple, Member of Parliament for Derby and, as a philosophical radical, intimate with Bentham, the Mills, and Macaulay. He was an authority on free trade, law reform and education.Chuo P5-1; Everett, p. 540; Sabin 4768 and 4769; not in Goldsmiths’.

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