The History and romance of crime : from the earliest times to the present day.

Format:

Book

Series:

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--History.

Crime.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages v-x, 196, 203, 222, 225, 227, 238-239, 285, 288, 18 leaves of plates) : color illustrations.

Edition:

Edition de luxe.

Place of Publication:

London : Grolier Society, [between 1870 and 1899?]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Title pages: volume 1. Chronicles of Newgate : from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. volume 2. Chronicles of Newgate : from the eighteenth century to its demolition : a sketch of the tower. volume 3. Millbank Penitentiary : an experiment in reformation. volume 4. Non-criminal prisons : English debtor's prisons and prisons of war : French war prisons, American war prisons, with references to those of other lands. volume 5. Prisons over seas : deportation and colonization : British and American prisons of to-day. volume 6. Early French prisons : Le Grand and Le Petit Châtelets, Vincennes-The Bastile-Loches, the galleys, revolutionary prisons. volume 7. Modern French prisons : Bicêtre-St. Pélagie-St. Lazare, La Force-The conciergerie, La Grande and La Petite Roquettes, Mazas-La Santé. volume 8. German and Austrian prisons : prisons of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Austria-Hungary, the fortresses of Magdeburg and Spielberg. volume 9. Spanish prisons : the inquisition at home and abroad : prisons past and present. volume 10. Italian prisons : St. Angelo-The Piombi-The Vicaria, prisons of the Roman Inquisition. volume 11. Russian prisons : St. Peter and St. Paul; The Schlüsselburg; The Ostrog at Omsk; the story of Siberian exile; Tiumen, Tomsk, Saghalien. volume 12. Oriental prisons : prisons and crime in India, the Andaman Islands, Burmah-China-Japan-Egypt, Turkey

Plates: "Madam Roland incarcerated in Sainte Pélagie." "Elizabeth Fry reading to the women prisoners in Newgate." "The chapel at Newgate." "The inquisitor-general and the Catholic sovereigns." "An incident during the communal revolts of the Twelfth Century." "Prison hulks at Portsmouth." "Execution in India." "Castel dell' Ovo." "The Bastile." "Thieving Land (now Bow Street)." "Young girl revolutionist condemned to the scaffold." "The fleet beggar." "Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey, London." "The Castle of St. Angelo in 1490. The meeting of St. Ursula and the Pope," "Beatrice Cenci." "The Isle St. Marguerite." "Lucrezia Borgia dancing." "Chinese punishment" - Text: General introduction (pages v-x). "The Piombi of Venice" (page 196). "Japanese prisons" (page 203). "The terror of poison" (page 222). "Treatment of political" (page 225). "Chinese punishments" (page 227). "Early French prisons" (page 238). "Horrors of the galleys" (page 239). "Story of the Cenci" (page 285). "Crime of Thuggee" (page 288).

Notes:

Salesman's sample.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

OCLC:

937018193

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