Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds
By: by Charles Mackay.
Contributors: Rosenwald, Edith Goodkind, donor.; Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress); Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Office of the National Illustrated Library
Published: 1852
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Common fallacies; Impostors and imposture; Swindlers and swindling; Hallucinations and illusions; Social psychology
Notes: Each vol. has added t.p. with vignette.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The Mississippi scheme. The south-sea bubble. The tulipomania. The alchymists. Modern prophecies. Fortune-telling. The magnetisers. Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard; title: v. 2. The crusades. The witch mania. The slow poisoners. Haunted houses. Popular follies of great cities. Popular admiration of great thieves. Duels and ordeals. Relics.