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MADDEN, Richard Robert (1798-1886). Phantasmata; or, Illusions and Fanaticisms of Protean Forms Productive of Great Evils. London: T.C. Newby, 1857.
2 volumes, 8vo (211 x 133 mm). Steel-engraved frontispiece by S. Allen after a painting by Paul Delaroche (some dampstaining near lower margin). Full contemporary calf gilt-stamped with both the seal and supralibros of the Society of Writers to His Majesty’s Signet, rebacked preserving original gilt lettering-pieces, marbled edges (corners a bit rubbed). Provenance: armorial bookplate, most likely from the Society’s library.
FIRST EDITION, of this historical-sociological investigations of “epidemic disorders of the mind” in Europe from the Middle Ages to the 18th century. Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 1039-1042. A Horowitz high spot.