Book #83057
Revelations of Prison Life With an Enquiry Prison Discipline 2 vols.
Chesterton, George Laval. Revelations of Prison Life: With an Enquiry into Prison Discipline and secondary punishments. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1856. 2 volumes, in 1 book. 337; 304 pp. Brown library cloth with gilt stamped title to spine, institutional gilt stamp and insignia to covers. Very worn, joints and hinges cracked, but holding. Bookplate to front free endpaper. Property stamps to title pages, contents pages and several other pages. $65. * "Strangers to the interior of prisons are apt to associate with those receptacles whatever constitutes ferocity, gloom, and impurity" (Laval, [1]).
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