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, work-houses, poor-houses, manufactories, mad-houses, hospitals, and schools : with a plan of management adapted to the principle : in a series of letters, written in the year 1787, from Crecheff in White Russia, to a friend in England / by Jeremy Bentham.

Main entry:

Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832, author.

Title & Author:

Publication:

Dublin : Thomas Byrne, MDCCXCI [1791]

Description:

3 volumes in 1 : plans ; 22 cm (8vo)

Notes:
Second part has title: "Panopticon: postscript; part I: containing further particulars and alterations relative to the plan of construction originally proposed; principally adapted to the purpose of a panopticon penitentiary-house."
Third part has title: "Panopticon: postscript; part II: containing a plan of management for a panopticon penitentiary-house."
Pagination: vii, [1], 122, [4], 123-344, [5], 346-539, [1] pages, [3] folded leaves of plates.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-3Y⁴ 3Z² (2 leaves inserted between R1 and R2; 2 leaves inserted between 2X4 and 2Y1).
V. 2. Panopticon : postscript; pt. I : containing further particulars and alterations ... principally adapted to the purpose of a panopticon penitentiary-house -- v. 3. Panopticon : postcript; pt. II : containing a plan of management for a panopticon penitentiary-house.
English short title catalog, N37874

Subject:

Prisons Design and construction Early works to 1800.
Prison administration Early works to 1800.
Prisons Great Britain Early works to 1800.
Prisons.
Prisons Conception et construction Ouvrages avant 1800.
Prisons Administration Ouvrages avant 1800.
Prisons Grande-Bretagne Ouvrages avant 1800.
Jails

Added entries:

Byrne, Thomas, -1822, printer.
Ireland Dublin,

Inspection-house

Holdings:

Location: Library cage 100129
Call No.: ID85B15463
Status: Available

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