Rack, rope and red-hot pincers : a history of torture and its instruments
Abbott, G. (Geoffrey), 1922-1997
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Grisly and blackly humorous, this book details the gruesome history of torture, restraint and punishment from the days of the Normans to the late nineteenth century.
Main title:
Rack, rope and red-hot pincers : a history of torture and its instruments / Geoffrey Abbott.
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Imprint:
[London] : Brockhampton, 1997.
Collation:
[ix], 243 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., facsim. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Headline, 1993.Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-238) and index.
ISBN:
9781860197956 (hbk)
Dewey class:
365.6409
Language:
English
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BRN:
1601245
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