The History and Romance of Crime

Download or read book The History and Romance of Crime written by Arthur Griffiths and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History and Romance of Crime: From the Earliest Time to the Present Day The records of this fortress-prison are largely the history of early and mediaeval Rome, and in the severity of its punishments and the ruthless cruelty of its methods it stands as the type writ large of the prisons of Italy, for which, as it were, it set the pace. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.