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Reinhard, W., W.C. Costello and A.R. Allinson, translators.

Nell in Bridewell (Lenchen Im Zuchthause). Description of the System of Corporal Punishment (Flagellation) in the Female Prisons of South Germany Up to the Year 1848: a Contribution to the History of Manners.

Paris: Society of British Bibliophiles, [1932] 1900. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. First published in Germany in 1840, Reinhard's novel was "written in the sanctimonious tones of social protest but featuring male and female warders flagellating their female charges." Very Good+. Light shelf/edge wear, bottom tips bumped and through, gilt toned at spine, else bright, tight, and unmarred. Brown cloth boards, gilt lettering, red endpages. 8vo. xv, 326pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Facsimile reproduction of 1900 England edition. Translated from the German. Item #10154

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