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MACKAY (CHARLES)
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, 3 vol. FIRST EDITION, Richard Bentley, 1841

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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MACKAY (CHARLES)

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, 3 vol. FIRST EDITION, half-titles in volumes 2 and 3, 5 engraved plates, contemporary calf gilt, t.e.g., rebacked preserving original spines, morocco author labels later, 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1841

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FIRST EDITION of a collection of "the most remarkable instances of those moral epidemics which have been excited... to show how easily the masses have been led astray" (Preface), describing 'popular follies' such as the South Sea Bubble, the Mississippi Scheme, tulipomania, "popular admiration of great thieves", witch mania, "slow poisoners", alchemists, magnetisers, fortune tellers and other economic fads and manias. Considered an important early work of social psychology.

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