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Scots Law Reform, 1808
Bentham, Jeremy. Scotch reform; considered, with reference to the plan, proposed in the late Parliament, for the regulation of the courts, and the administration of justice, in Scotland: With illustrations from English non-reform.... London: J. Ridgway (pr. by Richard Taylor & Co.), 1808. 8vo [4], 100 pp.; 2 oversized folding tables.
Click the images for enlargements. • NSTC B1664; Goldsmiths'-Kress 19755. Recent dark blue morocco framed in double gilt fillets, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped floral decorative motifs. Title-page with a few small spots, others clean. Tables tipped in at the back of the volume. Neat and nice.
Market
Money Theory —
First American Edition
Bentham, Jeremy. Defence of usury;
shewing the impolicy of the present legal restaints [sic] on the terms of pecuniary
bargains. To which is added, a letter to Adam Smith, Esq. L.L.D. on the discouragement
of inventive industry. Philadelphia: Pr. for Mathew Carey by Lang & Ustick,
1796. 12mo (14.5 cm, 5.75"). 149, [3] pp. 
• First American edition of this classic argument that market forces should
be the sole determinant of the cost of money. Bentham examines the legal and
moral issues of usury, and concludes that the arguments generally put forth
for legislating maximum interest rates are unsound on both practical and logical
grounds. The work was originally composed in the form of letters to Bentham's
friend Mr. Wilson; the Dictionary of National Biography calls Bentham's
writing style "terse, clear, and even brilliant," noting as well that he was
responsible for introducing the words "international," "codify," and "minimise"
into the English language.
• ESTC W4815; Evans 30057. On Bentham, see: DNB, IV, 268–80. Mottled sheep, recently neatly rebacked over brown calf, spine with dotted gilt double rules and the original gilt-stamped title label. All edges speckled blue. Front pastedown stamped by a now-defunct institution; title-page and four others pressure-stamped by same institution. First few leaves very faintly foxed; others pleasingly clean save for occasional overenthusiastic edge speckling.
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