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Panopticon; or, The inspection-house: containing the idea of a new principle of construction applicable to any sort of establishment, in which persons of any description are to be kept under inspection: and in particular to penitentiary-houses, prisons, houses of industry ... and schools: with a plan of management adapted to the principle: in a series of letters, written in the year 1787 ... / By Jeremy Bentham ...

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Prisons.
Physical Description:
3 volumes : folded tables. ; 17 cm
Other Title:
Inspection-house
Place of Publication:
Dublin printed; London : Re-printed and sold by T. Payne, 1791.
Notes:
Vols. 2-3 have imprint: London, Printed for T. Payne.
Vol. 2 has title: Panopticon: postscript; part I: containing further particulars and alterations ... principally adapted to the purpose of a panopticon penitentiary-house.
Vol. 3 has title: Panopticon: postscript; part II: containing a plan of management for a panopticon penitentiary-house.
OCLC:
3833590

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