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Prison Almanac, fourth edition, revised. A Paris...

Prison Almanac, fourth edition, revised. A Paris chez Michel, L'An III de la République (1795) A volume 138 x 90 mm, Ill. of an engraved frontispiece representing the guillotine. The frontispiece, very well known, represents the place of the Revolution strewn with corpses and Sanson who, no longer finding heads to guillotine, guillotines himself. Ex-libris of the Librairie Raymond Clavreuil and "Le M. de Biencourt" on the back cover and ex-libris with the arms of Biencourt-Poncins on the colour guard. Wet spots and freckles