The Works of Jeremy Bentham, 11 volumes, Complete Set.
Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham Bentham, Jeremy [1748-1832]. Bowring, John [1792-1872], Editor. The Works of Jeremy Bentham. Edinburgh: William Tait/London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1838-1843. Reprinted New York: Russell & Russell, 1962. 11 volumes. Complete set. Main text in parallel columns. Folding plates. Folding tables. Octavo. (9-1/2" x 6-1/2"). Publisher's green cloth hardcover with gilt stamped spines. Light rubbing and soiling. Green tape affixed to foot of spines and rear boards. Ex-library with property stamps, "The Thomas M. Cooley Law School" to page edges, pastedowns and endpapers, otherwise internally clean. A good set. $750. * Russell & Russell edition Limited to 350 sets reproduced from the Bowring Edition of 1838-1843 of the first collected edition of Bentham's works. Bentham's influence on jurisprudence has been immense, directly resulting in the substitution of reason and utility for other justifications of law. As Walker notes, his "works have had great practical influence in subsequent legislation, and have great impulse to such projects as codification, consolidation of statutes, and the abolition of antiquated and arbitrary rules." The set contains all of Bentham's published writings, a useful "Introduction to the study of Bentham" by J.H. Burton and an excellent analytical index volume. Walker, Oxford Companion to Law 125. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School I:158. Holdsworth XIII:67.
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