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All The Branches of Useful Knowledge,

SOCIETY OF GENTLEMEN, A
A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; Comprehending All The Branches of Useful Knowledge, with Accurate Descriptions as well of the various Machines, Instruments, Tools.... Uses of Natural Productions, whether Animals, Vegetables, Minerals... Together with The Kingdoms, Provinces, Cities, Towns.... with above Three Hundred Copper-Plates... engraved by Mr. Jefferys... Vol. 1 (2,3,4)

London : Printed for W. Owen, at Homer’s Head, in Fleet-street 1754-55. First Edition
4 vols thick 8vo, Vol.1 Frontis, xvi, 830 pp, plates 1-66, Vol.2. title page, pp 831-1842, plates 67-150, Vol.3. title page, pp. 1843-2646, plates 151-225 Vol 4. title page pp.2647-3538, plates 226-302, cont. calf, 2-line fillet borders in gilt, recently stoutly rebacked, morocco labels, new fly-leaves, frontispiece in vol.1 supplied in facsimile, some off-set from leather turn-ins on first and last pages, a sound copy with all 302 copper engraved plates. Book label in gothic type of “F.H.T. Steatfeild” on each front paste-down.
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“No man can be judged a criminal until he be found guilty”- Beccaria

BECCARIA, Cesare (1738-1794)
Dei Delitti e delle Pene. Edizione Quinta Di nuovo corretta ed accresciuta

Harlem: 1766. “Fifth Edition”
Small 8vo, eng. frontis., [-]2, A-V8, [ii], 318pp, cont. mottled calf, fully gilt spine, morocco label, edges stained red, some wear to joints but still firm. On the front fly leaf is a 17-line ms. note in ink discussing Beccaria’s authorship and “Dr. Parr’s” doubt as to that ascription being correct.
Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio is widely regarded as one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment and the father of classical criminology. He laid out his ideas about legal reform including how and why to create effective punishments. He advocated that punishments should fit the crime and be proportional to the harm done. His great…
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Harlem: 1766. “Fifth Edition”
Small 8vo, eng. frontis., [-]2, A-V8, [ii], 318pp, cont. mottled calf, fully gilt spine, morocco label, edges stained red, some wear to joints but still firm. On the front fly leaf is a 17-line ms. note in ink discussing Beccaria’s authorship and “Dr. Parr’s” doubt as to that ascription being correct.
Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio is widely regarded as one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment and the father of classical criminology. He laid out his ideas about legal reform including how and why to create effective punishments. He advocated that punishments should fit the crime and be proportional to the harm done. His great work, Dei Delitti delle Pene, first published anonymously in 1764, was so successful that pirated editions appeared almost immediately, and soon after counterfeit editions of the pirated. The present copy appears to be identical with OCLC: 66257658 located in four copies, 3 in the Netherlands and one in Germany, but there are doubtless others in this complicated printing history.
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A classic of penal reform

HOWARD, John (1726-1790
The state of the prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons and Hospital

Warrington: Printed by William Eyres: and sold by T. Cadell, J. Johnson. and C. Dilly in London. 1784. Third Edition
4to, [A]4, B-Z, Aa-Zz, 3A-3S4, 3T 2+1, complete with 1/2-title and “Directions to the Book-binder”, 22 engraved plates, many folding, contemporary 1/2 roan, marbled bds, some skinning to boards, joints a little tender, head of spine chipped, heraldic ex-libris of Howard Vyse on front paste down, a respectable copy.
Of the first edition [1777], Printing and the Mind of Man says “His single-handed campaign not only caused a revolution in his lifetime but is the direct progenitor of subsequent work in the most critical branch of penal reform.”
ESTC T115096
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