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1851rif. 24095Pittsburgh: Geo. Parkin & Co. 1851. First Edition. Publisher's black ribbed cloth. Good; rebacked with almost all of the original spine laid down; some spotting. 12mo 4 - adverts 8 13 - 376 pp. An unusual and scarce book. It is written in the epistolary format. Welling's purpose is to alert the public to the "peculiarities" of the disordered minds that are his subject and the necessity of benevolence towards them. He is specific about the cruelties toward the insane within asylums. A detailed work. Absent from Atwater. Geo. Parkin & Co. hardcover books
1992rif. 015500Paris Grasset 1992 Broché Dédicacé par l'auteur
1990rif. 015501Paris Grasset 1990 In-8 Broché Dédicacé par l'auteur
1918Index. Name at top of front pastedown. Wear and small loss top edge of front and back cover. Loss to top of spine and base of spine bumped. Top edges greyed with dust marks.
First edition, 8vo (200 x 130 mm), xviii, [2], 451, [1]pp., frontis., portrait, numerous illustrs., orig. blue cloth lettered in gilt, a little rubbed, gilt stamp of the Birmingham Medical Institute to base of spine, a very good copy. Lyttelton Stewart Forbes Winslow (1844-1913) was a British psychiatrist famous for his involvement in the Jack the Ripper and Georgina Weldon cases during the late Victorian era. Provenance: Presentation label of Christopher Marlin to the Birmingham Medical Institute on front paste-down.
1922rif. 5441Berlin, Verlag von Julius Springer, 1922 ; in-8, broché ; 4 ff. , 113 pp., (2) pp. de catalogue de l’éditeur.