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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.

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[Psychology] Mackay, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. London: The Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852. Second Edition. Two volumes. Original brown publisher's cloth decoratively embossed, spine gilt stamped in a floral pattern and titled, advertisement endpapers. Engraved frontispieces and title pages. Illustrated. 8vo. Extremities gently rubbed, crowns frayed, first quire shaken in vol. I, contemporary ownership signatures to ffep and first fly leaf.