Panopticon, or, The inspection-house : in which by persons stationed in a central lodge, and seeing without being seen, any number of other persons, may at all times be inspected without change of place ... to penitentiary and other prisons, work-houses, manufactories, mad-houses, lazarettos, and schools / by Jeremy Bentham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832.

Series:

Making of the modern world

Making of the Modern World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Panopticon

Inspection house

Place of Publication:

[London] : Sold by R. Baldwin, 1812.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Vol. 1 Panopticon, or, The inspection-house

Vol. 2, pt. 1 Panopticon: postscript, containing further particulars and alterations relative to the plan of construction originally proposed, principally adapted to the purpose of a panopticon penitentiary-house

Vol. 2, pt. 2 Panopticon: postscript, containing a plan of management for a panopticon penitentiary-house.

Notes:

Errata precedes text in each volume.

"Printed anno 1791, with the ensuing title-page: now first published."

Title on added t.p.: Panopticon, or, The inspection-house: containing the idea of a new principle of construction applicable to any sort of establishment ... and in particular to penitentiary-houses ... with a plan of management ... / by Jeremy Bentham.

The advertisement on the verso of the title-page lists the establishments in which the central-inspection principle has been adopted since 1791.

Vol. 2, pts. 1 & 2 have imprint: London : Printed for T. Payne.

Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 20564.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements. s2005 miunns

OCLC:

65237412

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