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Escapology.- Prison torture.- Dicey & Co. (C., publisher) The Miserys of a Gaol Shewing ye Lammentable hardships that poor Debtors have undergone thro' ye Barbarity & oppression of their Gaolers, broadside with 8 engraved vignettes of prisoners being tortured, surrounding a central illustration of 'the irons that were taken out of the Marshalsea Prison', on laid paper with watermark of a fleur de lis, platemark 345 x 415 mm (13 1/2 x 16 1/4 in), sheet 380 x 435 mm (15 x 17 in), trimmed to or just within the platemark, tipped onto paper support, old folds with repair verso to upper centre, some toning and surface dirt, pencil inscription to mount 'Extremely rare/ Quite unknown', unframed, 1729

Apparently unrecorded, with no examples in the British Museum or ESTC. Included in the various methods of torture illustrated, one example features 'the helmet, in which [the prisoner] has only Liberty to rise up and set down, not being able to move his head either to ye right Hand or to the Left...'; another showing 'a prisoner with his thumbs screwed hard into a Hand vice and an iron like a Pothook put round his neck [hoisting] him as high as he can stand on Tiptoe'.

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