BENTHAM, Jeremy.

A Protest against Law Taxes, shewing the peculiar mischievousness of all such impositions as add to the expence of appeal to justice ...

London, J. Debrett, 1795. Small 8vo, pp. 64; half calf over brown boards, with arms of the Signet library centrally stamped gilt on upper and lower boards, rubbed, boards stained, upper cover loose, spine lettered gilt; internally a fine copy with the first and last blanks and wide margins. Re-issue of the first edition, published two years earlier. ‘In February 1793, John Parnell proposed in the Irish House of Commons new taxes to raise £10,000, including “a Tax 6 per cent on the entrance of judgments” and a provision for “declarations and replications in the courts to be raised to 6d. bills and answers the same”. As a reply to Parnell’s proposal Bentham wrote this pamphlet. It was first printed in Dublin in 1793 and privately distributed. Afterwards the work was published bound with the Supply without Burthen and the Defence of Usury’ (Chuo).‘“It is” (wrote the Edinburgh Review on the appearance of a second edition in 1816) “a work, which, for closeness of reasoning, has not perhaps been equalled, and for excellence of style has never been surpassed; a chain of political argument, as close and as beautiful as anything which the severest of the sciences presents”’ (Atkinson, p. 129).Chuo P16-3; Everett, p. 542; Goldsmiths’ 16310; this edition not in Kress; see Halévy, p. 177.

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