OLD-TIME PUNISHMENTS
Hull: William Andrews, 1890. First Edition. Octavo, 251 pages; VG; bound in fine dark green gilt morocco by Raithby, Lawrence, and Co., with their stamp, paneled spine with gilt titling and tooling; both covers identical, with a gilt and brown morocco inlay of a Drunkard's Cloak from page 140 to center, inside a gilt box, ox-blood gilt morocco above and below, all inside a gilt box, with gilt floral and geometric designs outside, gilt border to edges; gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; rear two-thirds of binding very tight; profusely illustrated; very light wear to front hinge, corners; shelved case 3.
1349644
Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $1,500
NOTES
"...he hath seen men drove up and down the streets, with a great tub or barrel opened in the sides, with a hole in one end to put through their heads, and so cover their shoulders and bodies, down to the small of their legs, and then close the same, called the new-fashioned cloak, and so make them march to the view of all beholders; and this is their punishment for drunkards and the like." [page 140]. The punishments described herein include The Ducking-Stool, The Pillory, Punishing Authors and Burning Books, The Jougs, The Stocks, The Drunkard's Cloak, and Various Gibbet-Lore.;