THE GOOD DR. GUILLOTIN And His Strange Device.

Hardback, 1st UK edn. Tr. by Malcolm MacCraw. One of the ironies of fate is the popular conception that the man who gave his name to the hideous machine of the French Revolution, the guillotine, was one of the monsters of history. The truth is that Guillotin was an honest, upright and highly talented humanitarian, who only narrowly escaped execution himself, and whose sole motive in suggesting the use of the guillotine (which he did not even invent), was the prevention of further suffering to the victims of the revolution. The author sets this astonishing man in his true perspective. Illus., Appendices and Bibliog. 224pp. 8vo. h/back. With tiny label to fpd, v. lightly browned edges o/w Vg. in laminated Nr. Vg. pcdw.