Escapology.- Prison torture.- Overton (Henry) & J. Hoole. The Representations of the several Fetters, Irons, & Ingines of Torture that were taken from the Marshalsea Prison, broadside illustrating the parliamentary report of 1729 on conditions in the Fleet Prison, showing various methods of detaining inmates, including "the scull cap" and "the sheers, weighing 20 pounds", 7 engraved vignettes with text below, on thin laid paper, sheet 385 x 310 mm (15 1/4 x 12 1/4 in), trimmed to or just within the platemark, laid onto paper support, repaired tears and splits to old folds, minor surface dirt, unframed, [1729]
⁂ Unrecorded in ESTC, but another example is held in the British Museum.
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