Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions in 3 vols

by Charles Mackay

$28,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: Richard Bentley, 1841. First edition. Octavo 226 x 143 mm . Original purple cloth, spines ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, covers with floral border blocked in blind, pale yellow endpapers with printed advertisements. Engraved frontispiece to each vol., all with original tissue guards, two plates in Vol. III. Contemporary bookseller’s ticket of Sharland, Southampton, to front

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