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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions
by Mackay, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Richard Bentley, 1841. 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. Now housed in a leather entry slipcase. 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. First Edition. Hardback. Good+. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Temple Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001523
- Title
- Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions
- Author
- Mackay, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Richard Bentley
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1841
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mackay, Madness, Crowds, Popular Delusions, Stock Markets, Bubbles, Tulip Mania, Thievery, Duelling, Crusades, Witches, Alchemy
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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