Complete Set of 2 Mediums of the 19th Century w/ Slipcase. NF. First Edition Thus. Hardcover Books, Volumes 1 & 2, 1963. University Books, New Hyde Park, NY. Unmarked. Near Fine tan cloth; bindings tight, solid & square. Publisher slipcase sturdy, no splits; edge shelf wear w/ some areas of rubbing & color loss. Publisher maroon stain to top edges, bright, unmarred. 307 pp & 374 pp plus index. Frank Podmore's history of the nineteenth-century spiritualist movement, first published in London in 1902 as Modern Spiritualism. This edition adds a biographical & bibliographical introduction by psychical researcher Eric J. Dingwall. Ships in box from the USA, quickly & w/care.
SYNOPSIS:First published in London in 1902 under the title Modern Spiritualism, Frank Podmore's Mediums of the 19th Century is a comprehensive and critically rigorous history of the modern spiritualist movement. The study charts the development of belief in spirit communication, clairvoyance, and physical mediumship, tracing its evolution from late eighteenth-century animal magnetism and Mesmerism through the rise of the nineteenth-century spiritualist boom. Podmore offers an analytical examination of the psychological factors, physical tricks, and anomalies that defined Victorian mediumship.
This University Books edition of 1963 presents the work as a two-volume set, issued in a publisher's slipcase without individual dust jackets. Volume One covers the early origins and development of Spiritualism in America and Europe, while Volume Two focuses on the physical phenomena of spiritualist circles, automatic writing, and the rise of organized psychical research.
This edition includes an introductory essay by parapsychologist and psychical researcher Dr. Eric J. Dingwall, providing biographical and historical context to Podmore's work. Podmore was a founding member of the Fabian Society and an influential early leader of the Society for Psychical Research, known for his skeptical, psychologically grounded approach to investigating mediums, apparitions, and telepathy.
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