Sold for:
$175
$175
Mackay, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852. Two volumes. Second edition. Profusely illustrated. "Popular Delusions" include the Crusades, witchcraft, haunted houses, the admiration of great thieves, the "slow poisoners," fortune-telling, relics and prophecies, to name a few. Original blind-stamped cloth. 8vo. Light fading to cloth. Contemporary manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p. both vols. (Charles Argentine Alington, likely Reverend of Swinhope, 1852).
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-07-08
