CONOLLY, John (1794-1866). An Inquiry Concerning the Indications of Insanity, with Suggestions for the Better Protection and Care of the Insane. 1830. Plum cloth (faded, top of spine worn, inch tear at front outer joint, library stamp at bottom of title-page). "Conolly's Inquiry was the first book to attempt to link normal and abnormal mental states" (Norman). Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 805-809. -- The Construction and Government of Lunatic Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane. 1847. 4 folding plates at rear. Chocolate cloth, old spine label (front outer joint cracked). Presentation inscription from the publisher to the editor of the Times. The plates include three plans of asylums and a bird's-eye view of the Jamaica Asylum. Hunter & Macalpine, p. 1033. -- The Treatment of the Insane without Mechanical Restraints. 1856. Brown cloth (worn at ends of spine and fore-corners, Liverpool Medical Library stamps on title and inside front cover and white lettering on spine). "Conolly's abolition of all forms of physical restraint at Hanwell Asylum indicated a fundamental shift in psychiatric thought: insane patients were no longer to be thought of as vicious animals, but as sick human beings..." (Norman). Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 1030-1038. -- [CONOLLY]. MIDDLESEX. The Special Report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum, at Hanwell, with Appendices, May General Session, 1846. 1846. Recent half morocco. -- [Bound with:] The Second [-Fourth] Report...1847 [-1849]. 1847--1849. 6 folding charts (one silked, with some loss of text). Each Report includes Conolly's lengthy medical reports, made as Hanwell's resident physician. All London. Together 7 works, in 4 volumes, 8o. Original cloth, except as noted. FIRST EDITIONS. Norman 503-506. (4)