The world's famous prisons : an account of the state of prisons from the earliest times to the present day : with the history of celebrated cases.

"Edition de luxe limited to one thousand registered and numbered sets. Number 238."Each volume has also special t.-p., giving author's name.1. Chronicles of Newgate from the twelfth to the eighteenth century -- 2. Chronicles of Newgate from the eighteenth century to its demolition; a sketch of the Tower -- 3. Millbank penitentiary; an experiment in reformation -- 4. Non-criminal prisons: English debtor's prisons and prisons of war; French war prisons; American war prisons; with references to those of other lands -- 5. Prisons over seas; deportation and colonization; British and American prisons of today -- 6. Early French prisons: Le Grand and Le Petit Châtelets, Vincennes, the Bastile, Loches, the galleys, revolutionary prisons -- 7. Modern French prisons: Bicetre, St. Pelagie, St. Lazare. La Force - the Conciergerie, La Grande and La Petite Roquettes, Mazas - La Santé -- 8. German and Austrian prisons: prisons of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Austria-Hungary, the fortresses of Magdeburg and Spielberg -- 9. Spanish prisons: the inquisition at home and abroad, prisons past and present -- 10. Italian prisons: St. Angelo - The Piombi - the Vicaria, prisons of the Roman inquisition -- 11. Russian prisons: St. Peter and St. Paul, the Schlüsselburg, the Ostrog at Omsk, the story of Siberian exile, Tiumen, Tomsk, Saghallen -- 12. Oriental prisons: prisons and crime in India, the Andaman Islands, Burmah - China - Japan - Egypt, Turkey.Mode of access: Internet