The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900

Andrew Scull

Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1993

First edition ISBN: 0 300 05051 8

'This book, based on Scull's highly acclaimed study, Museums of Madness, is an extensive reworking and enlargement of that earlier text. Drawing on his own research, and that of others over the last fifteen years, Scull now adds new dimensions to a classic work in the history of psychiatry and nineteenth-century British society.' (Inside front DJ flap)

Near Fine, with only slight rubbing to the top and bottom of the DJ spine. Hardback, 24cm x 16cm, xviii, 442 pp. 

 For sale by Priory Books, Warwickshire County Record Office's secondhand bookshop