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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Mason, George Henry. Punishments of China. London : Printed for W. Miller by W. Bulmer, 1801 (OCoLC)754564367 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
George Henry Mason |
OCLC Number: | 4363888 |
Notes: | Added t.p. in French: Les punitions des Chinois / représenté[e]s en vingt-deux gravures avec des explications en anglais et en français. Bound with his The costume of China, illustrated by sixty engravings. London, 1800. |
Description: | [54] pages, 22 leaves of color plates : color illustrations ; 37 cm |
Contents: | 1. A culprit before a magistrate -- 2. A culprit conveyed to prison -- 3. A culprit conducted to trial -- 4. An offender undergoing the bastinade -- 5. Twisting a man's ears -- 6. Punishment of the swing -- 7. Punishing a boatman -- 8. Punishing an interpreter -- 9. The rack -- 10. Torturing the fingers -- 11. Burning a man's eyes with lime -- 12. A malefactor chained to an iron bar -- 13. Punishment of the wooden collar -- 14. A man fastened to a block of wood -- 15. A malefactor in a cage -- 16. Punishment of a wooden tube -- 17. Hamstringing a malefactor -- 18. Close confinement -- 19. Conducting an offender into banishment -- 20. A malefactor conducted to execution -- 21. The capital punishment of the cord -- 22. The manner of beheading. |
Other Titles: | Punitions des Chinois |
Responsibility: | illustrated by twenty-two engravings: with explanations in English and French. |
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