Revelations of Prison Life With an Enquiry Prison Discipline. 2 vols

1856. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1856. 2 vols in 2 books.. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1856. 2 vols in 2 books. Chesterton, George Laval. Revelations of Prison Life: With an Enquiry into Prison Discipline and Secondary Punishments. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1856. Second edition, revised. 2 volumes. ix, 337; iv, 304, 16 pp. Interesting works catalogue to rear of volume 2. Decorative cloth with gilt stamped spines. Some shelfwear. Front board of volume 1 detached. Rear joint of volume 2 cracked but secure. Chipping to spine ends. A worn but good set. $65. * "Strangers to the interior of prisons are apt to associate with those receptacles whatever constitutes ferocity, gloom, and impurity" (Laval, [1]).