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Lot 413
Sale 6115 - Books & Manuscripts
Sep 19, 2019
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[Sociology] McKay, Charles Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
London: National Illustrated Library, 1852. In two volumes. Second edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece in each volume and numerous in-text illustrations. Publisher's full red morocco, small soiling on font cover of the second volume; decoratively stamped in gilt; all edges gilt; dentelles in gilt; likely the publisher's presentation binding. With the bookplate of Norman Ritchie on the front paste-down of each volume; scattered foxing in the first volume.