Item #62651 Perceval's Narrative: A Patient's Account of His Psychosis 1830-1832. Gregory BATESON, Edited, introduced by.

Perceval's Narrative: A Patient's Account of His Psychosis 1830-1832.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1962. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii + 332pp. Original green cloth gilt-lettered on spine, b&w frontis. The first edition of this unusually lucid autobiographical account of the illness and institutionalisation of John Perceval, an officer in the Grenadier Guards and briefly student at Oxford University, who for three years between 1830 & 1832 suffered from a form of schizophrenia. The author was the son of the British Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval (1762 – 1812), who is remembered as the only British Prime Minister to have been murdered. From the collection of Dr. M. H. Coleman, although not marked as such. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped and rubbed, page edges darkened, endpapers unevenly browned, owner's name on front blank, text clean. Overall a tight, unmarked VG+ copy in VG dust jacket. (Dust jacket a bit darkened overall, all edges and extremities a bit chafed and lightly chipped, not clipped). Item #62651

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