LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF VALENTINE VOX - 1850 MENTAL ILLNESS ASYLUMS HUMAN RIGHTS ASTROLOGY slight smudging to boards

slight smudging to boards

In excellent overall condition: No interior writing and binding is tight

Several illustrations throughout

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LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF VALENTINE VOX - 1850 MENTAL ILLNESS ASYLUMS HUMAN RIGHTS ASTROLOGY slight smudging to boardsLIFE 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.