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MATERIAL: Hand-Written/Painted
TYPE: Book
DIMENSIONS: 5 3/4 X 7 1/2 inches (closed)
WEIGHT:
COMPONENTS: 128 pages, 5 have hand-painted illustrations of gallows and ropes; Original covers, contents complete,
CONDITION: good shape for the age.
NOTES: A superb Japanese manuscript on a very rare subject.
LANGUAGE
Japanese
ITEM ID: 3420
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Executioner’s Criminal Law Book

DATE
Year: 1871
Decade: 1870s
Century: 19th (1801-1900)
Notes: Meiji 4

Japanese hand-painted and hand-written Executioner’s Manuscript Criminal Law book, Laws and Punishment by Hanging, with eerie hand-painted illustrations of gallows and ropes used to hang criminals.