Colonie Agricole et Penitentiare de Mettray

by A. Thierry

$2,800 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Publisher's burgundy patterned cloth stamped in blind and gilt, with a floral and arabesque design, gilt lettering on upper cover, expertly rebacked to style, yellow endpapers. First edition of a very rare book of views of a French prison for juvenile delinquents. Founded in 1840 by Frederic Demetz with just six inmates, the juvenile-only facilities of the Colonie Agricole et Penitentiare de Mettray was a revolutionary penal institution inasmuch as youth

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