METTRAY. - Set of 3 plates. - COCHIN (Augustin)]. Notice sur Mettray. Extract from Annales de la Charité. [Tours, Imprimerie Ladevèze, 1846]. Offprint sold for the benefit of Mettray, decorated with a frontispiece view of the colony and a plate showing the interior of the establishment with the refectory, classroom and dormitory. - COLONIE agricole de Mettray. General meeting of founders held in Paris on May 20, 1841. Tours, Pornin et Cie, 1841. - COLONIE agricole et pénitentiaire de Mettray. Septième assemblée générale des fondateurs, tenue à Paris le 10 mai 1846. Paris, Imprimerie Fournier, Claye, Taillefer et Cie, 1846. Frontispiece view of the colony.

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