Child Torture in Scotland.

  • (Charity) 'An Officer of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children'
  • Edinburgh: The Edinburgh Press 1895

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Description

8vo, pp. [xii], 164 + frontispiece. Further full-page photographic illustrations included within pagination. Original red boards printed in black. A little shaken, lightly soiled. Bindng somewhat marked and soiled, a little bumped and rubbed to extremities.

Notes

A scarce, emotively-written work, subtitled to the cover as 'the Experiences of an Officer of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children', detailing cases of neglect, cruelty and negligence to children across Scotland, with the final chapter given over to the particulars of the Society which produced it, the forerunner of the modern charity Children First.
Library Hub records just two copies, at NLS and BL.

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