Panopticon, or, The inspection-house
Subtitle: 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 ... to penitentiary and other prisons, work-houses, manufactories, mad-houses, lazarettos, and schools
By: by Jeremy Bentham
Series: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 20564; Making of the Modern World
Publisher: Sold by R. Baldwin
Published: 1812
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Prisons
Other titles: Panopticon.; Inspection house.
Notes: Errata precedes text in each volume.

"Printed anno 1791, with the ensuing title-page: now first published."

Title on added t.p.: Panopticon, or, The inspection-house: containing the idea of a new principle of construction applicable to any sort of establishment ... and in particular to penitentiary-houses ... with a plan of management ... / by Jeremy Bentham.

The advertisement on the verso of the title-page lists the establishments in which the central-inspection principle has been adopted since 1791.

Vol. 2, pts. 1 & 2 have imprint: London : Printed for T. Payne.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 20564.
Table of contents: title: Vol. 1 Panopticon, or, The inspection-house; title: Vol. 2, pt. 1 Panopticon: postscript, containing further particulars and alterations relative to the plan of construction originally proposed, principally adapted to the purpose of a panopticon penitentiary-house; title: Vol. 2, pt. 2 Panopticon: postscript, containing a plan of management for a panopticon penitentiary-house.