due largely to his erratic and combative temperament
quasi-scientific consolation aimed at readers searching for belief
thanking Elliot Roosevelt for 30 photos loaned for reproduction in the Roosevelt library
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Mackay - Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions (1841) Music due largely to his erraticCharles Mackay. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions (Vols. I III). London: Richard Bentley, 1841. FIRST EDITION () 3 vol. pp. 400; 406 + 2 p ads; 404. C&P. []4, B Z8, 2A 2C8; []4, B Z8, 2A 2C8, 2D4 ; []4, B Z8, 2A 2C8, 2D2. Each vol includes a frontispeice (John Law, James I, and Count Cagliosteo, respectively), Vol. III includes two addition plates. Paracelsus (p. 97); Dr Dee (p. 114). Cover of vol. 1 somewhat loose, missing bottom spine