Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions (Volume 1).

Charles Mackay

Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston, 1850

[An early and still influential study of crowd psychology and financial bubbles] Bound in publisher's brown cloth, rebacked with modern cloth spine. Hardcover. Clean, unmarked pages.   pp. viii, (2), 13-384 p. + ads. Sabin 43357.

Contents: V. 1. The Mississippi scheme --The South-Sea bubble --The tulipomania --Relics --Modern prophecies --Popular admiration for great thieves --Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beards --Duels and ordeals --Popular follies in great cities --The O.P. Mania --The thugs and phansigars --Witch mania --The slow poisoners --