The Punishments of China: illustrated by twenty-two engravings

The NY Public Library has scans of an 1804 book from China, that shows 22 engravings of common punishment methods of the day.  (boingboing.net)

'The Punishments of China' (1801/1804) by GH Mason at NYPL" looks like a cheerful children's book, but it provides graphic detail of ingenious cruelties devised to penalize thieves, disorderly women and translators who willfully misinterpreted others' words. The punishment for "committing fraud on merchants" was to be suspended face down on a canvas sling that could be tightened to back-breaking extremes." (for example) (bibliodyssey.blogspot.com)

A culprit before a magistrate.

A culprit conveyed to prison.

A culprit conducted to trial.

An offender undergoing the bastinade.

Twisting a man's ears.

Punishment of the swing.

Punishing a boatman.

Punishing an interpreter.

The rack.

Torturing the fingers.

Burning a man's eyes with lime.

A malefactor chained to an iron bar.

Punishment of the wooden collar.

A man fastened to a block of wood.

A malefactor in a cage.

Punishment of a wooden tube.

Hamstringing a malefactor.

Close confinement.

Conducting an offender into banishment.

A malefactor conducted to execution.

The capital punishment of the cord.

The manner of beheading.

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