PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH - 1914-1915, Volume 27
Book Details + Condition: Robert MacLehose and Co. (Glasgow). First Edition, 1915. Hardcover. 562 pages, with Index to rear. Illustrated. Scarce first edition, original copy of PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH from 1914-1915. Publisher's original green cloth boards with gilt title, etc. to spine. Contents of this volume include: Philosophy, Science and Psychical Research; Evidence of Personal Survival; Thought-Transference; Experience in Hypnotic Practice; Pseudo-Physical Phenomena; Auto-Suggested Visions as Illustrating Dream-Formation; and much more. Please see our other listings for more first editions of THE SOCIETY OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH, as well as information about the organization below. Binding a bit cocked; rubbing to corners and edges; some cloth worn from spine edges and ends; old water damage to small section of front board; discoloration and warping present; London Spiritualist Alliance library rules and sheet (and check-out) to front endpapers; text is clean and free of markings.
The Society for Psychical Research was created in 1882, with Henry Sidgwick serving as its first president. Its stated purpose was to apply scientific methods to the investigation of psychic phenomena and the paranormal. Areas of study included hypnotism, dissociation, thought-transference, mediumship, spirit possession, apparitions and haunted houses and the physical phenomena associated with séances. The SPR were the first to introduce a number of neologisms which have entered the English language, such as 'telepathy', which was coined by Frederic Myers. Much of the early work involved investigating, exposing and in some cases duplicating fake phenomena. Among its most renowned members were Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Price, and William T. Stead.
