![]() ![]() ![]() Inscription to front free endpaper verso in vol. Volume one with an illustrated frontispiece, vignette illustrated half-title, 48 vignette engravings in the text volume two with illustrated frontispiece, vignette illustrated half title, and 68 vignette engravings in the text. Original brown cloth, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, sides blocked in blind with publisher's name and foliate design, advertisement endpapers, top edges gilt. "Charles Mackay's passionate erudition and urbane, unaffected prose style contributed to make him one of the chief figures in the establishment of Victorian journalism as a dignified profession" (ODNB). ![]() Still in print, Mackay's book has had a profound influence on economics and sociology, with many modern economists referring to his work when analyzing the financial bubbles of our own age. Mackay's classic covers popular delusions of all types, considering the credulous enthusiasm of mankind for phenomena such as alchemy, witchcraft, relics, the Crusades, urban myths, as well as economic events such as the tulip bubble, the Mississippi Bubble, and the South Sea Bubble. The second edition also extends the title with the now well-known phrase: "the Madness of Crowds". Second edition, the first to be thoroughly illustrated the first edition of 1841 had only five plates across its three volumes. ![]()
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