[Rarebooks] fa: JEREMY BENTHAM - LORD BROUGHAM DISPLAYED - First Edition 1832

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Jeremy Bentham: Lord Brougham Displayed: Including I. Boa Constrictor,  
alias Helluo Curiarum; II. Observations on the Bankruptcy Court Bill,  
Now Ripened into an Act; III. Extract from Proposed Constitutional  
Code. London: Robert Heward, 1832. FIRST EDITION. Slim 8vo in modern  
forest-green calf and marbled boards; iv + 72 pp.; folding letterpress  
speech bound in. Goldsmiths 27817; Kress C.3022.

Light toning to the leaves, with some dust-soiling/darkening to the  
top edges; large fold-out speech with a couple of small tears at the  
folds, one tape repair on the reverse; otherwise clean and sound,  
firmly bound in an appealing modern binding. Jeremy Bentham  
(1748-1832), philosopher, legal scholar and political reformer, was  
the founder of English utilitarianism. One of Bentham's final works,  
published in the last year of his life, in which he castigates the  
Lord Chancellor, Henry Brougham, his friend and follower for twenty  
years, for what is in Bentham's view a brazen attempt to gain power  
and patronage.