SEEING GHOSTS
GURNEY, Edmund, Frederic W.H. MYERS, and Frank PODMORE.
Phantasms of the Living …
London, Society for Psychical Research, and Trübner & Co, 1886.
Two vols, 8vo, pp. lxxxiv, 573, [1]; xxvii, [1], 733, [1], with half-titles; numerous illustrations within the text; some scattered foxing at extremities; else a very good copy in modern quarter black morocco with patterned paper sides and vellum tips, spine lettered directly in gilt.
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Phantasms of the Living …
First edition, second issue as usual, with the note regarding corrections and additions on the verso of the title-page of vol. I and said Corrections included.
Phantasms contains much of the early work of the Society for Psychical Research, documenting over 700 cases studies of ghosts, and covering telepathy, hypnotism, dreams, hallucinations, &c. Aided by Eleanor and Henry Sidgwick, Phantasms attempted to ‘prove the reality of telepathy, and to demonstrate that “phantasms” (impressions, voices, or figures) of persons undergoing some crisis – especially death – are perceived by their friends and relatives with a frequency which mere chance cannot explain’ (Schultz, Henry Sidgwick (2004), p. 319).