Rev. ed. of: Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. London : Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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 -- The crusades -- The witch mania -- The slow poisoners -- Haunted houses -- Popular follies of great cities -- Popular adminration of great thieves -- Duels and ordeals -- Relics.
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