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BRAID, James (1795?-1860). Neurypnology; or, the Rationale of Nervous Sleep, Considered in Relation with Animal Magnetism. London: John Churchill; Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1843.
8o (172 x 107mm). Original black cloth (rebacked with original gilt-lettered spine laid down, fore-corners a bit worn). Provenance: William Harrison Ainsworth, popular Victorian novelist (presentation inscription from the author on half-title: "To W. Harrison Ainsworth Esq with the author's respects"); Dr. Homer Wakefield of Bloomfield, Ill. (humorous bookplate, stamp on title-page).
FIRST EDITION of the first full-length scientific treatise on hypnotism. PRESENTATION COPY to William Harrison Ainsworth. Long contemporary newsclipping regarding Braid attached to rear free endpaper. "As Braid continued to investigate hypnotic phenomena, his ideas of what caused them underwent several radical changes, which are documented in his later works. Braid's methods of hypnosis were published in France circa 1860, where they exerted an important influence on the work of Broca, Charcot, Libeault and Bernheim, whose teachings in turn influenced the work of Sigmund Freud" (Norman). Crabtree 465; Garrison-Morton 4993; Hunter-Macalpine, pp. 906-910; Zilboorg-Henry, pp. 356-357; Norman 324.
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FIRST EDITION of the first full-length scientific treatise on hypnotism. PRESENTATION COPY to William Harrison Ainsworth. Long contemporary newsclipping regarding Braid attached to rear free endpaper. "As Braid continued to investigate hypnotic phenomena, his ideas of what caused them underwent several radical changes, which are documented in his later works. Braid's methods of hypnosis were published in France circa 1860, where they exerted an important influence on the work of Broca, Charcot, Libeault and Bernheim, whose teachings in turn influenced the work of Sigmund Freud" (Norman). Crabtree 465; Garrison-Morton 4993; Hunter-Macalpine, pp. 906-910; Zilboorg-Henry, pp. 356-357; Norman 324.