LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF VALENTINE VOX - 1850 MENTAL ILLNESS ASYLUMS HUMAN RIGHTS HERBALS New York (1969)

New York (1969)

with gilt stamp of Mestha (known as Imseti) to front board

text is clean and unmarked save aforementioned inscription

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LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF VALENTINE VOX - 1850 MENTAL ILLNESS ASYLUMS HUMAN RIGHTS HERBALS New York (1969)LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF VALENTINE VOX, THE VENTRILOQUIST Book Details + Condition: Willoughby and Co. (London). Reissue, 1850. Hardcover. 620 pages. Fiction novel by English author Henry Cockton, telling the story of a gifted ventriloquist and his uncle, who is committed to an asylum where he is subjected to inhumane treatment. Cockton intended to use this novel to highlight the issue of abuse in the so called "lunatic asylums" of the 19th century.