Author: BABINGTON, ANTHONY.
Title: The English Bastille. A History of Newgate Gaol and Prison Conditions in Britain 1188-1902.
Description: London: Macdonald, 1971. 1st edition. Newgate Gaol "the most dreaded and most sinister of prisons, not only because of its close association with the gallows at Tyburn and the whole grussome ritual of public execution, but also on account of the brutal treatment accorded to its inmates and the atmosphere of filth, squalor, depravity and disease in which they were forced to live." Pp.250, owner's name to front free endpaper. Brown boards, dustwrapper has wear to spine edge. VG/VG.

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