London : Printed for the Author, by Dryden Leach; And sold by W. Flexney... G. Kearsly... T. Henderson [et al] 1763. First Collected Edition
4to, [A]2, B-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa 4, Bbb1 (verso blank), hf-title, title, 369 pp, contemporary sprinkled calf, fully gilt spine, red morocco label in 2nd compartment, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Howard Vyse on front pastedown, slight loss of leather at lower back corner but still a fine copy.
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…
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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Poems...Containing the Rosciad. the Apology. Night. the Prophecy of Famine. an Epistle to William Hogarth. and the Ghost, in Four Books
Dei Delitti e delle Pene. Edizione Quinta Di nuovo corretta ed accresciuta
