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To be printed as a Title page to a small Foolscap 8vo Volume
Panopticon
–
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,
and the establishment managed, upon a plan, applicable
(with the requisite variations) to Penitentiary
Houses and other Prisons, Work Houses, Manufactories,
Mad Houses, Lazarettos and Schools.
Printed Ao 1791 with the ensuing Title page: now first
published.
☞ Ao 1792 Ao 1792 New Book.
Advertisement†
† ☞ Printer – Print
this on the back
of the Title page
In consequence of a communication made obtained of
The Central-Inspection principle was
applied, though partially and disadvantageously
to the Edinburgh Penitentiary House.
At Petersburgh, Ao 1809, under the diretion of
the inventor, Sir Samuel Bentham, now Commissioner
of his Majesty's Navy, then on a mission to the Russian
Government, it was, in a perfected state applied to
an Establishment, instituted under the name of the
School of Arts, for the instruction of many hundred
boys in Arts subservient to the business of the Naval
Department: being there made to pervade, and has
since been in the Russian Empire, adopted to in divers Establishments,
public and private.
⊞ ⊞ The Plates referred
to are not inserted:
having been destroyed
by a fire. Models
on an important plan
have since been exhibited.
An Outline
still more recent is
shown by Plates
attached to a work
printed Ao 1797, and
herewith published under
the title of Pauper
Management improved.
In June 1811, this work, together with three
others, by the same Author, relative to the management
of Convicts, or other persons maintained at the public
charge, having been laid upon the Table of the House
of Commons Committee on Penitentiary Houses, is
referred to in the Appendix to their Report of that same
date.⊞
By Jeremy Bentham of Lincoln's Inn, Esquire.
Sold by Robert Baldwin, Pater Noster Row, and
James Ridgway, Piccadilly. Price In two Volumes, price 14s.
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