LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF VALENTINE VOX - 1850 MENTAL ILLNESS ASYLUMS HUMAN RIGHTS ASTROLOGY Scarce First Edition / First

Scarce First Edition / First Printing

small tear to bottom of p 250

Very scarce copy

but is otherwise in excellent condition with only minor wear

by Cassell & Company ~ First Edition / First Printing ~ 1883

LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF VALENTINE VOX - 1850 MENTAL ILLNESS ASYLUMS HUMAN RIGHTS ASTROLOGY Scarce First Edition / FirstLIFE 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.