Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions

£10,000

Category

Philosophy

Author

Charles Mackay

Reference

1471

Three volumes complete - Volume One - [3]-vi, [3], 2-400pp; Volume Two - [5], 2-406pp; and Volume Three - [5], 2-404pp. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper over boards, raised bands, spines in five panels, title label to second panel, volume label to fourth. Very slightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise externally very good. Internally some light foxing to portraits, endpapers, and occasionally to text, especially to the first volume, but generally fairly clean. With portrait frontispieces to each volume, and another two portraits to third volume, bound without half-titles. Book plate of Horatio Noble Pym to front pastedowns. The first edition of Mackay's extraordinarily popular work on human delusions, which included economic bubbles (South Sea bubble, Mississippi Company bubble, and tulip mania), alchemy, prophecies, thievery, beards, duelling, and price riots. Kress C5560

Year

1841

Condition

Good+

Edition

First Edition