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LEADER: 02161cam 2200289I 4500
001 1546877
005 20080101133622.0
008 760623s1900 nyuacf 000 0 eng|
035 $a(OCoLC)02275963
035 $907-AES-5759
035 $aucoclc2275963
035 $a1546877
040 $aDLC$cYBM$dYBM$dCLU
050 0 $aLAW
100 1 $aGriffiths, Arthur,$d1838-1908.
245 14 $aThe history and romance of crime from the earliest time to the present day.
260 $aLondon :$bThe Grolier Society,$c19--
300 $a12 v.$bfronts, plates., ports.$c23 cm.
500 $aEach volume has also special t.p. giving author's name.
500 $a"Edition deluxe limited to one thousand registered and numbered sets. Number 235".
500 $aVII. Modern French prisons: Bicêtre-St. Pélagie-St. Lazare; La force-the Conciergerie; La Grande and La Petite Roquettes; Mazas-La Santé.--VIII. German and Austrian prisons: prisons of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Austria-Hungary; the foretresses of Magdeburg and Spielberg.--IX. Spanish prisons: the inquisition at home and abroad; prisons past and present.--X. Italian prisons: St. Angelo-the Piombi-the Vicaria; prisons of the Roman inquisition.--XI. Russian prisons: St. Peter and St. Paul; the Schlüsselberg; the Ostrog at Omsk; the story of Siberian exile; Tiumen, Tomsk, Saghalien.--XII. Oriental prisons: prisons and crime in India; the Andaman islands; Burmah-China-Japan-Egypt; Turkey.
505 0 $aI. Chronicles of Newgate from the twelfth to the eighteenth century.--II. Chronicles of Newgate from the eighteenth century to its demolition; a sketch of the Tower.--III. Milbank penitentiary; an experiment in reformation.--IV. Non-criminal prisons: English debtor's prisons and prisons of war; French war prisons; American war prisons; with references to those of other lands.--V. Prisons over seas: deportation and colonization; British and American prisons of to-day.--VI. Early French prisons: Le Grand and Le Petit Châtelets; Vincennes-the Bastile-Loches; the galleys; revolutionary prisons.
650 0 $aCrime.
650 0 $aPrisons.
910 $arcp
935 $aMC2736159
910 $aMARS