Nightmares & Hobbyhorses by De Ponte Michael - 1974

Hunting Library, 1974. Unstated. . Hardcover. Good/Good. Nightmares and Hobbyhorses by De Porte, Michael Huntington Library, 1974 unstated ed. Hardback in good condition with good dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight. Board cover is clean as is dust jacket. This book covers attitudes toward insanity that prevailed in England during the time just after the Restoration. People were fascinated by madness and this interest was reflected in the literature of the time. Was insanity excess imagination? lack of control of ones passions? or just some harmless illusion? all are discussed by the major thinkers of the day. Index, 164 pages.