77/1936 [Psychology and psycho-analysis]. James, W. Principles of Psychology. London, Macmillan and Co., 1890, 1st Engl. ed., 2 vols., XII,689,(1); VI,704p., 94 ills., orig. unif. giltlettered cl., t.e.g.

- Owner's entry in both vols.; a few sm. specks on sl. faded backstrips. Contents fine.

= Published in the same year as the American first edition. Cf. Norman Library 1153; Garrison/ Morton 4977.2: "The foundation of the American school of experimental psychology. (...) James viewed psychology as an experimental science based on physiology (...)"; "(...) one of the first attempts to treat psychology as a natural science in which the mind is conceived of as being subject to both Darwinian evolutionary principles and to acts of will (...)." (Norman Library).