[Rarebooks] fa: TORTURE & PUNISHMENTS - 4 Works in 1/ca. 1881-91 (Tussaud's, Tower of London, Iron maidens, Branks &c.)

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, June 7. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la.

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Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.

An interesting if rather grisly collection of late-Victorian pamphlets and catalogs related to penology with the gloves off:

A. Harman: Sketch of the Tower of London as a Fortress, a Prison, and a Palace… Also a Guide to the Armories. London: R. Clay & Sons, [ca. 1880s]. Original printed wraps bound in; 54 pp.; illustrated and with a folding plan. [BOUND WITH:] William Andrews: Punishments in the Olden Time: Being an Historical Account of the Ducking Stool, Brank, Pillory, Stocks, Drunkard's Cloak, Whipping Post, Riding the Stang, etc.. London: W. Stewart & Co., [1881]. 76 pp.; frontispiece and illustrations. [BOUND WITH:] [J. Ichenhäuser (compiled by):] Illustrated Catalogue of the Original Collection of Instruments of Torture from the Royal Castle of Nuremberg, Amongst which will be found the Celebrated Original Iron Maiden (Eiserne Jungfrau), Lent for Exhibition by the Right Honourable the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot. [London: ca. 1891]. 88 pp. plus 12 leaves of plates. [BOUND WITH:] Louis Tussaud's New Exhibition, Ltd., from London. [London: ca. 1890s]. 164 pp.; photos and illustrations. Four works bound in one volume; 8vo (19.5 cm) in early half calf over marbled boards; morocco spine label with the discreet title "Pamphlets" lettered in gilt.

An earlier owner, clearly an assiduous student of the subject, has written notes (in red ink!) in the margins of the plates in the second work, and a few penciled marginalia elsewhere. Spine sunned, spotting to the edges of the text block and intermittent scattered spots to the contents, the last work lacking pp. 25-58; otherwise generally quite clean and sound, firmly bound.