Old-time punishments /
by William Andrews.
- x, 251 pages, 1 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Facsimile reprint of Hull : W. Andrews, 1890.
A history of the peculiar and particular punishments known as the ducking stool, the Scottish maiden, the pillory, stocks, whipping post, the drunkard's cloak, hanging in chains, and the more terrifying and unsavory punishments such as death by pressing, being hung then drawn and quartered, and death by boiling.