Nell In Bridewell — The Illustrations?
Hey everybody, I’d like to pick your kinky resource knowledge, and crowdsource a search that’s been defeating me. I’m looking for a good online source (or good emailed scans, if somebody has them) of the twelve illustrations (plates) that accompanied early editions of the famous workhouse whippings book, Nell in Bridewell. The bibliographic info I have suggests that the illustrations were published and sold separately from the famous and rare 1900 Charles Carrington edition, but were included in the 1932 facsimile reprint.
The best quality set of scans I’ve seen is here. A couple of these are pretty decent, but I’m looking for better quality scans (some of those are very washed out) and higher resolutions and DPIs if possible, to use for a printed reproduction project (on paper).
If you can help, feel free to leave links in the comments or email me any files you may have. Thanks in advance!
Trust me these are not from Nell in Bridewell. I have seen the book with illustrations and they are very different.
Harazuke.net is usually pretty reliable, but there have been numerous editions of the book since 1900. If there are differing illustrations in different editions, that’s good news!
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