Schmidt, Master Franz Hangman's Diary, a : Being the Journal of Master Franz Schmidt Public Executioner of Nuremburg, 1573-1617 , London: Philip Allan & Co, 1929.

Illustrated by 8 Plates. Second Impression. Hard Cover. Good/No DJ. 8vo Blue cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. Slightly rubbed to edges. Lighly bumped corners. Foxing mainly to prelims. Frontis plate + 7 further plates.vii, 250 pages clean and tight. The journal of Master Franz Schmidt, public executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617. Edited, with an introd., by Albrecht Keller, and translated by C. V. Calvert and A. W. Gruner. With an introductory essay, "A brief account of criminal procedure in Germany in the Middle Ages," by C. V. Calvert. Part I executions, Part II minor bodily punishments. (Book ref. 124606)  £35.00

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