LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF VALENTINE VOX - 1850 MENTAL ILLNESS ASYLUMS HUMAN RIGHTS ANTIQUE & VINTAGE COLLECTIBLES 75 on the inside of

75  on the inside of the DJ flap

with the addition of an anonymous page of verse at the front

It is 3" thick

published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the death of Paracelsus

The Order of the Magi

LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF VALENTINE VOX - 1850 MENTAL ILLNESS ASYLUMS HUMAN RIGHTS ANTIQUE & VINTAGE COLLECTIBLES 75 on the inside ofLIFE 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.