CHINA -- ALBUM containing 12 handpainted illustrations on pith paper dep. Chinese punishments. N.d., (c. 1890). Each c. 106 x 176 mm, mounted on lvs., w. type-printed English captions. Obl.-8vo. Cont. silk over brds. w. ties. (Album worn and partly dam., 4 lvs. with some minor damage in blank margin; one leaf with damage affecting the illustration).
Hand-painted sequence of how criminals were properly punished. They have the following captions: 1: Magistrate in Court. 2: Arrest of criminals. 3: Punishment of criminal by parading him in the Street. 4: Slapping the mouth for telling lies. 5: Punishment by stretching the criminal on a wooden bench. 6: Punishment by cangue, or wooden pillory. 7: Torture by pressing the ancles of criminal with wooden poles. 8: Bambooing his breeches. 9: Tying him to a stone. 10: Banishment. 11: Ling Ch'ee (i.e. cutting of the flesh of the criminal piece by piece). 12: Beheading - the Capital punishment in China.€ 600
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