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Design: Nigel Bents; Photography Ruth Segarra 2 Peter Harrington Individual images of all items are on our website www.peterharringtonbooks.com Catalogue 70 Featured Items CRIME AND PUNISHMENT [51433] £27,500 sured by its injury to society and that the penal- 2. [BURTON, Robert] inscription of W. Whiteway, 1622, above motto on title; pia, with Rabelais and Montaigne and like all ties should be related to this. The prevention of later inscription of Joseph ?Pendlebury partly erased these it exercised a considerable influence on the 1. [BECCARIA, Cesare, First edition of undoubtedly the most influential crime he held to be of greater importance than The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it is. and very slightly shaved; modern ownership inscription thought of the time. Dr Johnson deeply admired it, marchese di] work on criminal justice in the 18th century. its punishment, and the certainty of punishment With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, on front pastedown. Two leaves (sigs. R6–7; pp. 265–8) and Charles Lamb’s often and strongly expressed Cesare Beccaria, Marchese Beccaria-Bonesana, of greater effect than its severity. He denounced prognostickes, and severall cures of it. In torn across at upper outer corner with loss of that part devotion served to rescue the Anatomy from a brief Dei delitti e delle pene. a well-to-do Milanese professor of law and eco- the use of torture and secret judicial proceedings. three maine partitions with their severall of the sectional running header only but not text or period of oblivion” (PMM 120). nomics, had made many prison visits and was [Livorno: Tipografia Coltellini,] 1764 He opposed capital punishment, which should be sections, members, and subsections. page numerals, a few trivial stains, but generally a very appalled at what he saw. His short book was im- replaced by life imprisonment; crimes against Philosophically, medicinally, historically, good copy in unsophisticated state internally, the text PROVENANCE: William Whiteway (1599–1635) of Quarto (214 × 157 mm), pp. 104. Contemporary mar- mediately successful and widely influential in Dorchester, Dorset, held most of the civic offices in property should be in the first place punished opened and cut up. By Democritus Junior. clean, with good margins all round. bled boards, edges uncut. Spine rubbed, a little foxing stimulating reform in many countries, including by fines, political crimes by banishment; and that town during a remarkable period of civic im- internally, stronger in quire K, an excellent copy in the nascent United States. “Beccaria maintained the conditions in prisons should be radically im- With a satyricall preface, conducing to [46909] £32,500 provement. He was widely read and seems to have original state. that the gravity of the crime should be mea- proved. Beccaria believed that the publication of the following discourse. contemplated writing his own history of England First edition. “The Anatomy, as its publishing his- criminal proceedings, verdicts and sentences, as since 1603, but never completed the task. His diary, Oxford: by John Lichfield and James Short tory shows, was one of the most popular books of well as furthering general education, would help 1618–35, rich in historical interest, was published for Henry Cripps, 1621 the seventeenth century. All the learning of the age to prevent crime. These ideas have now become so in 1991. His commonplace book is at Cambridge. Small quarto (180 × 138 mm), complete with the as well as its humour – and its pedantry – are there. commonplace that it is difficult to appreciate their scarce final leaf Ddd4 (errata). Early sprinkled calf, It has something in common with Brant’s Ship of revolutionary impact at the time” (PMM). The true Grolier, 100 English, 18; Grolier, L-W, 30; Jordan-Smith, pp. probably later 17th-century, double blind rules, Fools, Erasmus’s Praise of Folly, and More’s Uto- 80–81; Pforzheimer 119; PMM 120; STC 4159. first edition, published anonymously and without skilfully rebacked to style and corners restored, red place or printer, is scarce: only one copy appears morocco label to style, new endpapers, old red edges. in auction records in the past 35 years; there is Housed in a dark brown cloth slipcase. Decorative apparently no copy in the British Library. woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. Ownership Melzi I, 281; PMM 209. “Experto credo Roberto” [“Believe Robert who has tried it”] Proverb quoted by Burton in his introduction 4 5 Peter Harrington Individual images of all items are on our website www.peterharringtonbooks.com Catalogue 70 Featured Items “THE CRADLE OF POLITICAL (1776). In distinguishing between market price A REMARKABLE ASSOCIATION But while it was a commercial success for the pub- “broken away from all books … a brave experi- writings of Thomas Carlyle. Emerson became an im- and intrinsic value and showing how resources lishers, James Munroe and Company, it yielded little ment & the success is great” (Emerson to Carlyle, portant force in Thoreau’s life, and the esteem was ECONOMY” (JEVONS) moved into those sectors where the market price COPY CONNECTING CARLYLE, for Carlyle, and “Emerson was somewhat embar- 13 Sept 1837; Slater, p. 167). mutual, as evidenced by a comment Emerson made 3. CANTILLON, Richard. was above intrinsic value, and away from those EMERSON AND THOREAU; ONE rassed at being involved in an act of benevolent in 1838 to his cousin David Green Haskins: “When sectors where market price was below intrinsic OF THE EARLIEST KNOWN BOOKS piracy” (Slater, p. 18). He was determined not to Emerson personally interviewed publishers and Mr. Carlyle comes to America, I expect to introduce Essai sur la nature du commerce général. value, Cantillon influenced Adam Smith’s famous let this happen to Carlyle’s new work, The French made known his desire “to bring out an American Thoreau to him as the man of Concord” (Harding, Traduit de l’anglois. distinction between market price and natural price. INSCRIBED BY EMERSON TO Revolution, a book which he described as having edition of The French Revolution at his own risk The Days of Henry Thoreau, p. 66). Ten years later “London, Fletcher Gyles” [but Paris, Cantillon also pre-empted later studies of human THOREAU and for the benefit of the author” (Slater). C. C. Lit- Thoreau published in Graham’s Magazine his lau- tle and James Brown of Boston agreed to Emerson’s Guillyn,] 1755 population, with a brief but almost complete 4. CARLYLE, Thomas. datory essay “Thomas Carlyle and His Works”, in anticipation of the principles of Malthus. terms and issued a prospectus, dated 31 October which he wrote that The French Revolution is like Duodecimo. Contemporary French mottled calf, The French Revolution: a History. 1837, in which Emerson solicited subscribers for “a poem, at length translated into prose, an Iliad, smooth spine gilt in compartments, morocco label, Kress 5423; McCulloch 52. the Little-Brown edition: “In addition to the wish indeed …” Thoreau’s essay, one of his few forays marbled endpapers, speckled edges. Skilful restoration Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, of presenting to the public a work of great intrinsic into literary criticism, shows the influence Carlyle to headcap and corners, contents crisp and clean, an 1838 value, I have the hope of securing a private benefit had on his writing – particularly in the free flow- excellent copy. 2 volumes, duodecimo. Original blue-grey embossed to the author, to whom all the profits arising from ing prose style which resembles of that of Carlyle’s cloth, gilt lettering to spines. Custom morocco-backed it will be transmitted. With this view, the publish- [51045] £37,500 prose in The French Revolution. solander case and two cloth chemises. Inscribed in ink ers have made me a liberal contract, by which they on the front blank in volume 1: “Henry D. Thoreau from First edition of the earliest and rarest single work relinquish to the author all profit on the sale of Emerson and Thoreau exchanged a number of R. Waldo Emerson” and with the ownership inscription such copies as shall be subscribed for” (see Joel books from the beginning of their friendship, on political economy. Richard Cantillon (c.1680– of Henry D.