CONTENTS.
Reading edition
INDEX.
FOOTNOTES.
Volume I. Contents. List of Engravings. Preface. 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.
Volume II. Contents. List of Engravings. The Crusades. The Witch Mania. The Slow Poisoners. Haunted Houses. Popular Follies of Great Cities. Popular Admiration of Great Thieves. Duels and Ordeals. Relics.
THE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME: GARDENS OF THE HOTEL DE SOISSONS, 1720.
MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS.
VOLUME I.
THE BUBBLERS’ ARMS—PROSPERITY.
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