Rack, rope and red-hot pincers : a history of torture and its instruments
Abbott, G. (Geoffrey), 1922-1993
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"Little Ease" - a cell only four feet square and nine feet high, in which it was impossible to lie down. "The Duke of Exeter's Daughter" and "Skeffington's Gyves" - two of the many excruciating versions of the rack. This text offers an account of instruments of torture through the ages.
Main title:
Rack, rope and red-hot pincers : a history of torture and its instruments / Geoffrey Abbott.
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Imprint:
London : Headline, 1993.
Collation:
243p.,[16]p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 18cm.
Notes:
Bibliography: p237-238. - Includes index.
ISBN:
9780747239840 (pbk)
Dewey class:
365.6409365.64
Language:
English
BRN:
105937
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