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Major Works of Jeremy Bentham
- [Anon] A Fragment on
Government: being an examination of what is delivered, on the subject of Government in General, in the
introduction of Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries, with a preface in
which is given a critique on the work at large, 1776
- 1776 ed. (anonymous): [bk]
- 2nd 1823 ed. (signed) [bk,
av]
- repr in Works,
v.1, (p.221)
- Copies:
1891,
Brisb.
- A View of the Hard-Labour Bill, being an abstract of a pamphlet, intituled, "Draught of a Bill, to
punish by imprisonment
and hard-labour, certain offenders and to establish proper places for their
reception." interspersed with observations
relative to the subject of the above draught in particular, and to penal jurisprudence in
general,
1778 [av]
[repr. Works v. 4. (p.1)]
[review in CR,
p.138]
- Defence of
Usury, shewing the impolicy of the present legal restraints on the terms of
pecuniary bargains, in a series of
letters to a friend, to which is added a letter to Adam Smith, Esq. LL.D. on the
discouragements opposed by the above
restraints to the progress of inventive industry,
1787 [bk]. [2nd. ed.
(1790); 3rd. ed. (1816,
bk. av) with
annex A Protest against Law
Taxes; 4th ed. (1818)] (French
version) (McM);
[repr. in Works, v.3 (p.1)]
- An
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, printed in the
year 1780 and now first published,
1789.
- 1780 (printed privately);
- 1789 (published) [bk;
cont];
- French 1802 transl. in Dumont as "Principes généraux
de Législation" in Traités de legislation civile et pénale. (p.1-95)
- 2nd 1823 edition:
vol.
1,
vol.2 [copies:1876,
1879,
1907]
- repr. in Works, 1838: v.1: (p.1);
Works, 1843: v.1 (p.84)
- html: [Brisb,
cuws]
- Extracts: [repr. as Utilitarianism,
1890]
- "Letter of Anti-Machiavel to the Public Advertiser", Public
Advertiser, 1789
- "Letter II of Anti-Machiavel to the Public Advertiser", Public
Advertiser, 1789
- [Extracts] Lettre du Comte de Mirabeau a ses Commetans pendant la
tenue de la primiere legislature (wr. 1789, pub. 1791) [av]
(unauthorized publication in 1791 of extracts of drafts of Bentham's Political Tactics manuscript,
written 1789, and translated by Mirabeau, E.
Dumont and Du Roveray).
- Draught of a New Plan for the Organization of the Judicial Establishment in France;
proposed as a succedaneum to the draught presented to the National Assembly,
December 21st 1789, 1790 [bk]
[repr. in Works v. 4 (p.285)]
- Essay on Political Tactics, containing six of the principal rules
proper to be observed by a political assembly in the process of forming a
decision, with the reasons on which they are grounded and a comparative
application of them to British and French practice: being a fragment of a
larger work, a sketch of which is subjoined, 1791.
- Panopticon or, the Inspection-House, containing the idea of a
new principle of construction applicable to any sort of establishment, in
which persons of any description are to be kept under inspections: and in
particular to penitentiary houses, prisons, manufactories, houses of
industry, mad-houses, work-houses, lazarettos, poor-houses, hospitals and
schools; with a plan of management adapted to the principle, in a series of
letters written in the Year 1787 from Crechett in White Russia to a friend
in England. 3 vols, 1791 -
v.1
("Panopticon"),
v.2
("Postcript Part I"),
v.3
("Postscript Part II")], [2nd. ed., 1815]. [repr. Works v. 4 (p.37)]
- Jeremy Bentham to the National Convention of France, 1793 (bk)
[published in
1830 ed, with title Emancipate Your Colonies! Addressed to the
National Convention of France, Anno 1793, shewing the uselessness and
mischievousness of distant dependencies to an European State.). [repr in
Works, v.4 (p.407)]
- A Protest against Law Taxes, shewing the peculiar
mischievousness of all such impositions as add to the expence of an appeal
to justice, 1793 (privately printed), first published
1795 [bk] (as prefix to Supply without Burden); [2nd ed. (1816) and 3rd
ed. (1818) appended to Defense
of Usury; repr. in Works, v.2, (p.573)]
- Manual of Political Economy, wr. 1793. [partially pub. in vol. 1,
Pt. 4 of Dumont, 1811; fully pub.1838, Works, v.3 (p.31)]
- Proposals for a Mode of Taxation, 1794
- Proposals for the Circulation of a Paper Currency, 1795
- Supply without Burthen; or Escheat Vice Taxation: being a proposal for
a saving in taxes by an extension of the law of escheat; including
strictures on the taxes on collateral succession, comprized in the budget of
7th Dec. 1795: To which is prefixed, (printed in 1793 and now first
published, A Protest Against Law Taxes shewing the mischievousness of all
such impositions as add to the expense of an appeal to justice, 1795
[bk]
[repr. in Works, v.2, (p.585)]
- Management of the Poor, 1796
- "Observations on the Treason Bill", 1796, Morning Herald
- "Situation and Relief of the Poor", 1797-98, series of seven
letters to the Annals of Agriculture [printed as separate pamphlet in
1812, Pauper Management Improved; Particularly by Means of an Application of the Panopticon Principle of Construction,
Anno 1797, first published in Young's Annals of Agriculture: now first
published separately.]
- Outline of a Work entitled, Pauper Management Improved: to be filled
up, and the work published in one volume octavo, as soon as a sufficient
number of communications sollicited in vol. xxix, no. 167 of Annals of
Agriculture, have been obtained. 1798?
- Preliminary Sketches, Relative to the Poor", 1798 (printed in Annals
of Agriculture)
- [by "Censor"] "Hints Relative to the Population Bill", 1800, Porcupine
- A Plan for Saving all Trouble and Expense in the Transfer of Stock and
for enabling the proprietors to receive their dividends without powers of
attorney, or attendance at the Bank of England, by the conversion of stock
into note annuities. 1800 (privately printed), first published in 1839,
in Works, v.3 (p.104)
- Circulating Annuities & c., 1801
- The True Alarm, (written 1801)
- In Defence of a Maximum (written 1801-4)
- Letter to Lord Pelham giving a comparative view of the system of
penal colonization in New South Wales and the home penitentiary system,
prescribed by two acts of parliament of the years 1794 and 1799, 1802
[repr. in Works, v.4 (p.173)]
- Traités de legislation civile et pénale, précédés de Principes généraux
de Législation, et d'une Vue d'un Corps complet de Droit: terminés par un
Essai sur l'influence des Tems et des Lieux relativement aux Lois, par Mr.
Jérémie Bentham, jurisconsulte Anglois, publiés en François par Ét. Dumont,
de Genève, d'après les manuscrits confiés par l'Auteur, 1802, 3 vols. (ed.Étienne Dumont, from Bentham's
manuscripts)
- A Plea for the Constitution: shewing the enormities committed to the
oppression of British subjects, innocent as well as guilty; in breach of
Magna Charta, the Habeas Corpus Act, the Petition of Right and the Bill of
Rights, as likewise of the several transportation acts, in and by the
design, foundation and government of the penal colony of New South Wales:
including an inquiry into the right of the Crown to legislate without
parliament in Trinidad and other British colonies. 1803 [repr. in
Works, v.4 (p.249)]
- Scotch Reform: considered with reference to the plan, proposed in the
late parliament, for the regulation of the courts and the administration of
justice, in Scotland: with illustrations from English non-reform in the
course of which divers imperfections, abuses, and corruptions, in the
administration of justice, with their causes, are now for the first time
brought to light, in a series of letters address to the Right Hon. Lord
Grenville &c &c.&c. with tables in which the principal causes of factitious
complication, delay, vexation and expense, are distinguished from such as
are natural and unavoidable. 1808 [bk] (2nd. ed., 1811).
- Théorie des peines et des récompenses, par M. Jérémie Bentham,
jurisconsulte anglois, rédigée en françois, d'après
les manuscripts, par M. Et. Dumont de Genève, 1811, 2 vols. (ed. Étienne Dumont, from Bentham's manuscripts)
- Original French edition 1811: vol. 1,
vol. 2
- 2nd French ed. 1818..
v.1,
v.2
- 3rd French ed 1825-26:.
v.1 ,
v.2 (av1,
av2)
- Vol. 1 Eng transl.
in 1825 as The
Rationale of Reward [cuws]
- Vol. 2 Eng. transl. by R. Heward
in 1830. as The
Rationale of Punishment [bk],
[cuws]
- Panopticon versus New South Wales; or, The Panopticon Penitentiary System and the Penal Colonization System
Compared: containing 1. Two letters to Lord Pelham 2. Plea for the
Constitution, 1812 (reprint of Bentham, 1802 and 1803).
- A Table of the Springs of Action, Shewing the several species of
pleasures and pains, of which man's nature is susceptible, together with the
several species of interests, desires and motives, respectively,
corresponding to them; and the several sets of appellatives, netural,
eulogistic and dylogistic, by which each species of motive is wont to be
designated; to which are added explanatory notes and observations, &c. 1815 (privately
printed), 1817 (published) [bk]
[Works, v.1, (p.195)]
[cuws]
- Tactiques de assemblée legislatives, suivi d'un traité des sophismes politiques,
1816 (ed. E. Dumont) [Eng. transl. as Essay on Political Tactics
and Anarchical Fallacies [Eng. trans. in Works,
v.2 (p.299)]
- Original French 1816 edition (ed. Étienne Dumont, from Bentham's manuscripts):
v.1,
v.2
- 2nd French 1822 edition:
v.1,
v.2
- Engl. trans. of vol. 1 first published 1839 as "An Essay on
Political Tactics, or inquiries concerning the discipline and mode
of proceeding proper to be observed in political assemblies,
principally applied to the practice of the British Parliament and to
the constitution and situation of the National Assembly of France"
in Works, v. 2, (p.299)
- Engl. trans. of
first part of vol.2 first published 1824 The Book of
Fallacies from unfinished papers of Jeremy Bentham, edited by a
friend [bk,
av],
[repr. in Works,v.2, (p.375)]
- Engl. trans. of
last part of vol. 2 first published 1839 as "Anarchical Fallacies, being an examination of the Declarations of
the Rights issued during the French Revolution" in Works, v.2, (p.489)
- Chrestomathia, being a collection of papers, explanatory of the design of an institution, 1816-17.
- "Swear Not at All"; Containing an Exposure of the Needlessness and Mischievousness, as well as Anti-Christianity of the
Ceremony of an Oath, 1817
- Papers relative to Codification and Public Instruction, including correspondence with the Russian Emperor, and divers
constituted authorities in the American United States, 1817 [bk]
[repr. in Works, v.4, (p.451)]
- Plan of Parliamentary Reform, in the Form of a Catechism, with reasons for each
article, with an introduction, shewing the
necessity for radical, and the inadequacy of moderate reform, 1817 [bk],
[repr. in Works, v.3 (p.433)]
- Defence of Economy against the Right Hon. George Rose, (wr.
1810, pub. 1817) [bk]
(on Rose)
- Church of Englandism and its Catechism Examined, 1818 (by
"An Oxford Graduate")
- Bentham's Radical Reform Bill, with extracts from the reasons 1819
[bk]
[repr. in Works, v.3. (p.558)]
- The King against Edmonds and Others, 1820
- The King against Sir Charles Wolseley, Baronet, and Joseph Harrison, Schoolmaster,
1820
- On the
Liberty of the Press and Public Discussion, 1821 [bk],
[repr. in Works, v.2, (p.275)],
[cuws]
- Three
Tracts relative to Spanish and Portuguese affairs with a continual eye to English ones,
1821
- Observations on the Restrictive and Prohibitory Commercial System,
especially with a reference to the decree of the Spanish Cortes of July 1820,
1821 (ed. J. Bowring) [bk],
[repr in Works v.3 (p.85)]
- The Elements of the Art of Packing, as Applied to Special Juries, particularly in cases of Libel Law,
1821
- An Analysis of the Influence of Natural Religion on the Temporal Happiness of
Mankind, 1822 (by "Philip Beauchamp"; ed. G. Grote)
- Letters to Count Toreno on the Proposed Penal Code, 1822
- Codification Proposal, Addressed by Jeremy Bentham to All Nations Professing Liberal Opinions,
1822 [bk]
[repr. in Works, v.4 (p.535)]
- Truth versus
Ashhurst: or Law As it Is, Contrasted with What It is Said to Be ,
1823 (written 1792)
- "Leading Principles of a Constitutional Code, for any State", 1823, The
Pamphleteer [p.475],
[repr. in Works, v.2, (p.267)]
- Traité des preuves judiciares, ouvrage extrait des manuscrits de Jérémie Bentham,
1823 (ed. E. Dumont) [Eng.
transl. 1825 Treatise on Judicial Evidence]
- [Pseud: "Gamaliel Smith"] Not Paul but Jesus, 1823 [bk]
- The Book of Fallacies, from the unfinished papers of Jeremy Bentham,
1824
- Observations on Mr Secretary Peel's House of Commons Speech, 1825
- Treatise on Judicial Evidence, extracted from the manuscripts of
Jeremy Bentham, 1825 (bk)
[Eng. trans. of 1823]
- Indications Respecting Lord Eldon, 1825
- The
Rationale of Reward, 1825 (transl. of 1811, Vol. 1)
- Extract from the Proposed Constitutional Code, Entitled Official Aptitude Maximised, Expense Minimised,
1826
- Rationale of Judicial Evidence: Specially applied to English practice,
from the manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham,
1827, five vols::
v.1,
v.2,
v.3,
v.4,
v.5. (written 1802-12, edited by J.S. Mill)
- Justice and Codification Petitions, 1829
- Articles on Utilitarianism, 1829.
- Constitutional Code for use of all nations and governments professing Liberal opinions,
Vol I, 1830 (written 1825-6; unfinished)
- Official Aptitude Maximised, Expense Minimised, as shown in the several papers in this volume,
1830
- Emancipate Your Colonies! Addressed to the National Convention of
France, Anno 1793, shewing the uselessness and mischievousness of distant
dependencies to an European State. 1830 [bk]
(wr. 1793) [repr in Works, v.4 (p.407)]
- Equity Dispatch Court Proposal, containing a plan for the speedy and
unexpensive termination of the suits now depending in equity courts, with
the form of a petition and some account of a proposed bill for that purpose, 1830
[bk],
[repr. in Works, v.3 (p.297)]
- The
Rationale of Punishment, 1830 (bk) (written 1775,
Eng. transl. of Dumont, 1811, Vol.
2)
- Jeremy Bentham to his Fellow-Citizens of France, on Houses of Peers and
Senates, 1830 [bk]
[repr. in Works v.4, (p.419)]
- Jeremy Bentham to his Fellow Citizens of France, on Death Punishment,
1831 [bk]
- Lord Brougham Displayed, 1832
- Deontology or, the Science of Morality, 1834 (ed. J. Bowring;
written 1814-19; French version: Vol.
1, Vol.
2)
- Pannomial
Fragments, 1831
- The Works of Jeremy Bentham, 11 vols., 1838-42 (ed. J. Bowring)
[Orig 1838-39 version:
Pt. 1,
Pt. 2,
Pt.. 3,
Pt. 4,
Pt.5,
Pt. 6,
Pt. 7,
Pt. 8,
Pt. 9,
Pt. 10,
Pt. 11,
Pt. 12,
Pt. 13,
Pt. 14,
Pt. 15,
Pt. 16,
Pt. 17,
Pt. 18,
Pt. 19,
Pt. 20,
Pt. 21,
Pt. 22)
[2nd ed. 1843, rearranged:
-
vol.1
-[lib]
(= 1838:
Pt. 1 &
Pt.2)
- Introduction (J.H.Burton) (p.1)
- Introduction Principles of Morals and Legislation (p.84)
(printed 1780, pub. 1789)
- Essay on the Promulgation of Laws and the reasons thereof, (p.155) with a
specimen of the penal code (p.164)
(unpub., partly in Traités, 1802)
- Influence of Time and Place in matters of Legislation (p.169)
(unpub., partly in Traités, 1802) [cuws]
- Table of the Springs of Action (p.195)
- Fragment on Government (p.221)
(pub. 1776)
- Principles of the Civil Code (p.297)
(unpub., partly in Traités, 1802) [cuws]
- Appendix: The Levelling System (p.358)
(unpub)
- Principles of Penal Law (p.365)
(unpub., partly in Traités, 1802)
-
vol. 2 - [lib]
(= 1839:
Pt. 7 &
Pt. 8)
- Principles of Judicial Procedure, with the outlines of a procedure
code (p.1)
(unpub, R. Doane ed.)
- Rationale of Reward (p.189)
(Eng. 1825 transl. of Théorie, 1811)
- Leading Principles of a Constitutional Code, for any state (p.267)
(pub. 1823)
- On the Liberty of the Press and Public Discussion (p.275)
(pub. 1821)
- Essay on Political Tactics (p.299)
(unpub. Eng. trans. of Dumont, 1816)
- Book of Fallacies (p.375)
(pub.1824, Eng. trans. of Dumont, 1816, v.2, Pt.1)
- Anarchical Fallacies, being an examination of the Declarations of
the Rights issued during the French Revolution (p.489)
(unpub Eng. trans. of Dumont, 1816, v.2, Pt.2)
- Principles of International Law (p.535)
(unpub)
- Appendix: Juinctiana Proposal: junction of the two seas - the
Atlantic and the Pacific - by means of a joint-stock company, to be
styled the Junctiana Company (p.561)
(wr. 1822, unpub)
- Protest against Law Taxes (p.573)
(private 1793; pub. 1795)
- Supply without Burden (p.585)
(1795)
- "Tax with Monopoly, or hints of certain cases in which, in
alleviation of the burden of taxation, exclusive privileges may be given
as against future competitors, without producing any of the ill effects,
which in most cases are inseparable from everything that savours of
monopoly, exemplified in the instances of the stock-broking and banking
businesses" (p.599)
(unpub)
-
vol. 3
- [lib]
(1839 =
Pt. 9 &
Pt. 10)
- Defense of Usury (p.1)
(pub. 1787)
- Manual of Political Economy, now first edited from the mss (p.31)
(partly extracted from Vol. 1, Pt 4 of Dumont, 1811)
- Observations on the Restrictive and Prohibitory Commercial System
(p.85)
(pub. 1821)
- Plan for the Conversion of Stock into Note Annuities (p.105)
(printed 1800, unpub)
- General View of a Complete Code of Laws (p.155)
(unpub., partly in Traités, 1802)
- Pannomial Fragments (p.211)
(unpub)
- Nomography, or the Art of Indicting Laws (p.231)
(unpub)
- Appendix: Logical Arrangements, or instruments of invention and discovery
employed (p.285)
(unpub)
- Equity Despatch Court Proposal and Bill (p.297)
(pub 1830)
- Plan of Parliamentary Reform in the form of a Catechism (p.433)
(pub 1817)
- Radical Reform Bill (p.558)
(pub. 1819)
- Radicalism not dangerous (p.599)
(unpub; wr.1820)
-
vol. 4
- [lib]
(= 1838:
Pt. 3 &
Pt. 4)
- View of the Hard Labour Bill, 1787 (p.1)
- Panopticon or the inspection house, 1791 (p.37)
- Panopticon versus New South Wales, 1802 (p.173)
- A Plea for the Constitution, 1803 (p.249)
- Draught of a Code for the organization of the judicial establishment
in France, 1790 (p.285),
- Bentham's draught and French code compared (p.305)
(by Bowring)
- Emancipate your Colonies, 1793 (p.407)
- On the Houses of Peers and Senates, 1830 (p.419)
- Papers relative to Codification and Public Instruction, 1817 (p.451)
- Codification Proposal, 1822 (p.535)
-
vol. 5 - [lib]
(= 1838:
Pt 5 &
Pt. 6)
- Scotch Reform (p.1)
- Plan of a Judicatory to be called the Court of Lords' Delegates
(p.55)
- Art of Packing Special Juries (p.61)
- Swear not at all (p.187)
- Truth versus Ashurst, or Law as it is, contrasted with what it is
said to be (p.231)
- Remarks on the Indictments in 'King against Edmonds' (p.239)
- Official Aptitude Maximized - Expense minimized (p.263)
- Commentary on Mr. Humphery's Real Property Code (p.387)
- Outline of a Plan of a General Register of Real Property (p.417)
- Justice and Codification Petitions (p.437)
- Lord Brougham displayed (p.549)
-
vol. 6 - [lib] =
(1839:
Pt. 11 &
Pt. 12) Introduction to rationale of evidence, Rationale of judicial
evidence
- Rationale of Evidence, v. 1
-
vol. 7 - [lib]
(= 1840:
Pt. 13 &
Pt. 14)
- Rationale of Evidence, v.2
-
vol. 8
- [lib]
(= 1841:
Pt. 15 &
Pt. 16)
- Crestomathia (p.1)
- Fragment on Ontology (p.192)
- Essay on Logic (p.213)
- Essay on Language (p.295)
- Fragments on Universal Grammar (p.339)
- Tracts on Poor Laws and Pauper Management (p.359)
- Three tracts on Spanish and Portuguese affairs (p.463)
- Letters to Count Toreno on the proposed Spanish penal code (p.487)
- Securities against Misrule, adapted to a Mahommedan State (p.555)
-
vol. 9 - [lib]
(= 1841:
Pt. 17 & 1842:
Pt. 18)
- vol. 10
- [lib]
(= 1842:
Pt.19 &
Pt. 20)
- Memoirs & Correspondence of Bentham
, Pt. 1 (1748-1828)
-
vol. 11
- [lib]
(= 1842:
Pt. 21 & 1843:
Pt. 22)
- Memoirs & Correspondence of Bentham
, Pt. 2 (1828-1832) (p.1)
- Description of Bentham (by J. Bowring, S. Smith) (p.76)
- Appendix on Panopticon Penitentiary Project (p.96)
(extracts from Bentham's "History of the War between Jeremy Bentham and
George the Third, by one of the Belligerents")
- Index (p.171)
- Principles of International Law,
1843
- Theory of Legislation, 1840,
v.1,
v.2. [Engl. trans. by R. Hildreth of Dumont 1802] [1864
ed., 1908
ed.]
- A Comment on the Commentaries; a criticism of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England,
1928 (written 1774/76, ed. C.W. Everett)
- Bentham's Theory of Fictions, 1932 (ed. C.K. Ogden)
- The Limits of Jurisprudence Defined, 1945 (ed. C.W. Everett)
- Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings, 3 vols., 1952 (ed. W. Stark)
- The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, 20 vols. thus far, 1968-
(ed. J.H. Burns, J.R. Dinwiddy, and F. Rosen)
- Of Laws in General, 1970 (written 1782)
- "Offences
Against One's Self", 1978, J of Homosexuality (written 1785)
- First Principles preparatory to Constitutional Code, 1989, (written
1822, ed. P. Schofield)
- Writings on the Poor Laws, 2001
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