Author: DUFF, CH.,
Title: A Handbook on Hanging. Being a short Introduction to the fine Art of Execution, containing muich information on Neck-breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Decapitation and Electrocution...Revised and enlarged edition.
Description: London, Putnam, 1961. sm. 8°. Orig. cloth, title in gilt on spine, dustjacket. 191pp. With an appendix, a table, being A Ready Reckoner for Hangmen. A famous atyrical essay on the hangman or executioner, describing many means of executing, with useful 'tips' for apprentices and professional executioners. Reprinted many times-over. Good copy with original dustjacket. (dustjacket with some occasional light fraying to extremities).

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