TYBURN TREE ITS HISTORY AND ANNALS

Hardback. The story of Tyburn must be one of the strangest and one of the saddest in England's history. Chapter headings include : Whom to Execute? Who is to Execute? How to Execute?; Drawn, Hanged, and Quartered; Torture and the Peine Forte Et Dure; The Hangman; After Tyburn; Origin and Site of the Tyburn Gallows; The Chronology of Tyburn; Annals. With 17 Illus. + Index. 292pp. 8vo. Teg, uncut edges, v. sl. faded sp. From the library of crime historian Jonathan Goodman, with his embossed stamp on fep. Vg.