Book title:

Bibliothèque philosophique du législateur, by Brissot de Warville, Jacques-Pierre

Keywords: Criminal Law, Law, Legal reform, Penal system

Parisian category: Droit civil, Droit de la Nature & des Gens, & droit public

Illegality: Darnton’s Corpus (38 copies requested in 5 orders)

Printed: between 0 and 3,446 copies

Acquired: between 0 and 500 copies

Sold and Given: between 214 and 8,038 copies

Returns: between 0 and 613 copies

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Full title: Bibliothèque philosophique du législateur, du politique, du jurisconsulte ou Choix des meilleurs discours, dissertations, essais, fragmens, composés sur la législation criminelle par les plus célèbres écrivains, en françois, anglois, italien, allemand, espagnol, &c. pour parvenir à la réforme des loix pénales dans tous les pays
Edition type (by origin): Commissioned STN edition

Author(s): Brissot de Warville, Jacques-Pierre
Language(s): French
Publication: Berlin [Neuchâtel]: [Société Typographique de Neuchâtel], 1782-1785
Details: 10 volumes, in-8°, pages: [4], XXXVIII, 323, [1 bl.]; [2], 336; [4], [9]-328; [4], 329, [1 bl.]; [2], 462; [4], 409, [3 bl.]; [4], 396; [2], 381, [1 bl.]; [4], 362, [4 bl.]; [2], 389, [3 bl.]

LFB Catalogue 1787
STN Catalogue 1785

Notes: Attribution - known STN edition. Due to complex edition history, part printings, and possibilities of double counting between copies charged to Brissot's account and those sent to his agent Desauges in Paris, no attempt has been made to compute 'assumed printings' for this edition.