Lot 70
Economics.- Bentham (Jeremy) A Fragment on Government, first edition, for T.Payne, P.Elmsly, and E.Brooke, 1776.
Hammer Price: £3,800
Description
Economics.- [Bentham (Jeremy)] A Fragment on Government, first edition, slight abrasion to half-title, lacking front free endpaper, free endpaper working loose, very occasional light staining, light scattered spotting and browning, Columbia College New York library blind-stamp to title and B1 and ink-stamp to title and a1, occasional pencil markings to margins sometimes touching text, traces of removal and remnants of bookplates or labels to pastedowns and rear free endpaper, hinges cracked but holding, 19th-century green cloth, spine browned, spine lettered in gilt, a few small ink stains, a little bumped, rubbed and frayed to extremities, [ESTC T55748; Kress 7191; Goldsmith 11503; Sabin 25416], 8vo, for T.Payne, P.Elmsly, and E.Brooke, 1776.
Description
Economics.- [Bentham (Jeremy)] A Fragment on Government, first edition, slight abrasion to half-title, lacking front free endpaper, free endpaper working loose, very occasional light staining, light scattered spotting and browning, Columbia College New York library blind-stamp to title and B1 and ink-stamp to title and a1, occasional pencil markings to margins sometimes touching text, traces of removal and remnants of bookplates or labels to pastedowns and rear free endpaper, hinges cracked but holding, 19th-century green cloth, spine browned, spine lettered in gilt, a few small ink stains, a little bumped, rubbed and frayed to extremities, [ESTC T55748; Kress 7191; Goldsmith 11503; Sabin 25416], 8vo, for T.Payne, P.Elmsly, and E.Brooke, 1776.
