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1892 Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
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Description
Illustrated, Original Binding, Very Scarce
A very scarce cloth-bound copy of the most popular and influential work of Scottish poet, songwriter, and journalist Charles Mackay, in very unusual decorative pictorial boards.
This title constitutes an early example of analysis on the psychology of crowds.
Mackay's writing within have been highly influential, with the latter half of the title being replicated and reused in a variety of creative works, the book's contents inspiring many more.
Mackay's passages on economic bubbles in this title are still debated and highly regarded today.
Decorated with gilt page edges, and frequent wood-cut vignette illustrations throughout.
Front hinge weak and may detach with further handling.
Condition
Bound in original tan pictorial boards. Externally, very smart. Indent to spine. Wear to spine tips. Very slight bubbling of cloth to front board. Slight fading to front board and spine. Knocked head and tail. Slight rubbing to bottom gilt page edge. Closed tear to spine where front join has broken. Front hinge weak and may detach with further handling. Internally, firmly bound. Pages consistently bright and clean.
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