European Prisons: Steel-engraved illustrated edition

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ALBOIZE DE PUJOL and MAQUET Auguste. Les Prisons de l'Europe. Magnificent edition, splendidly illustrated with steel engravings. Paris, Administration de librairie, 1845. Two volumes in-8°, period half-leather binding, spines decorated with rocaille ornaments, gilt titles and volume numbers, steel-engraved plates, volumes II and IV only, 368 & 326 pp. Condition: epidermis wear, rubbed edges and corners, small tears to headbands, scattered foxing. Covers famous Parisian prisons: Tour du Temple, For l'Evêque, La Force, Sainte Pélagie, Clichy.