Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions in 3 vols.

by Charles Mackay

$9,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: Richard Bentley, 1841. First edition. Three volumes, octavo leaves 221 x 138mm , collating: 6 , 400; 6 , 406; 6 , 404 pp. Bound without publisher’s advertisements, as often, and without half-title in volume one. Otherwise complete with the half-titles in volumes two and three, and with five engraved portraits: a frontispiece in each volume and two additional portraits in volume

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