Prisons.- Reformatories and Reformatory Treatment in France, translated from the French, by direction of the Government, first English edition, lithographed plate of agricultural colony and penitentiary of Mettray, foxed (mostly text), original cloth, rubbed and stained, spine faded, 8vo, Sydney, 1868.
⁂ A translation of three French pamphlets on prisons: 'An Account of the Agricultural Colony of Mettray' by de Metz...[&] Mathieu 'On the Regulation of the Young Prisoners of the Seine', 1865; 'Mettray: Reformatory Colony and Paternal House' by Bonneville de Marsaugy; 'Some Observations on the Mode of Treatment to be Adopted towards the Prisoners in the Reformatories' by Despine, 1867. Mettray was a progressive French penal institution for young offenders established in 1840 and served as a model for the British borstal system. By the late 1920s, when Jean Genet was an inmate for 3 years, it had declined drastically and closed in 1937.
COPAC lists only one copy (BL) and the 6 copies on WorldCat are all in Australia and New Zealand.