VILLIOT Jean de - Lot 410

VILLIOT Jean de Curiosities and anecdotes about flogging. Miss Fanny Hayward's court-martial. - The knout. - Flogging in Russia. - After the ball. - Prisons in Siberia. - Criminal flogging. - stranglers" and flogging. - Flogging in the Orient. - Punishment in the English army. - History of the stick. - Flogging in art. - Flogging of convicts in Australia, etc., etc. Librairie des bibliophiles [Charles Carrington] Paris 1900. E.O. 500 copies printed. Jean de Villiot is a pseudonym used by several authors in the Charles Carrington stable, including Hugues Rebell (also a pseudonym for Georges Grassal de Choffat). Choffat), our text belongs to a series of pseudo-erotic monographs entitled "La flagellation à travers le monde". Bound in-8, black half-chagrin, ribbed spine, speckled head, first cover preserved.