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Panopticon
When To make the thing the easier to talk of, & to enquire
after at the Booksellers I willing have given
it as you will see in the title page a particular nam
name, in a single word viz: Panopticon - or the Inspection House
Panopticon has is already in use as a name
for I forget what in optical instrument or
in or by means of which you may
see everything, as the name imports
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An engraved plan of a Panopticon there
certainly ought to be to accompany the book.
The one that accompanies the Ms you saw is
better than none at all: but if a model is
made it will be of course much better to
give a plan in its improved state, in short
a copy of that from whence the model is
made. Another reason for getting the
plan settled with an Architect as soon
as may be.
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As to the mode of printing, if it be the
same to you I should like it were in the same
size with the Irish edition of the Defence of Mary,
I would beg the favour to have 750 copies sent
me here: the expence of the paper and the
extra-expence of working off those 750 would be my
Identifier: | JB/117/048/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
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correspondence |
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recto |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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benjamin constant |
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draft of letter 716, vol. 4 |
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