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PEARSALL, R.L. (Robert Lucas). The Kiss of the Virgin: a narrative of researches made in Germany during the years 1832 and 1834, for the purpose of ascertaining the mode of inflicting that ancient punishment, and of proving the often denied and generally disputed fact of its existance...
(NP: Archaeologica, Vol. xxxvii, 1838). 4to., rebound in modern red cloth, pp.229-250. Some browning o/w a fine copy in a very plain modern binding.
This paper, read before the Society of Antiquaries in 1837, was then printed in Archaeologica and outlines the history of the implement of torture that came to be known as the "Iron Maiden."