“Book Her!”

A hundred years ago the phrase “throw the book at” someone had a very different meaning, apparently:

chained woman in a filmy transparent dress near a book dangling from a chain

Artwork is a detail from the cover of the October 1928 issue of Weird Tales, painted by pulp illustrator C. C. Senf.

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