How Women are Flogged in Russian Prisons: Narrative of a Visit to a Convent Prison in Siberia

An English Doctor

Paris

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Librairie des Bibliophiles

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1899

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First Edition.

21cm x 14cm. xvii, [3], 48 pages. Lettered wrappers.

Rare flagellation work published under the heading Curious Sidelights of Social History. An epistolary novel of a salacious account of an alleged visit by an English doctor to a convent prison in Siberia where he records the tortures and punishments inflicted upon the female inmates. Aroused by what he witnessed he later seeks to re-enact these experiences with prostitutes. Unrecorded in OCLC.

Foxed wrappers chipped and almost split at spine. Minor bumping to corners. Chip to fore-edge of half-title. Interior clean. Good Condition.

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