Description
First edition of The Interpretation of Dreams in English by Dr. Sigmund Freud, published in 1913.
Octavo, xiii, [1], 510pp. Publisher’s blue cloth, title stamped in gilt. Scarce errata slip at page [1]. Rubbing to cloth, some soiling, sun toning to spine. Some loss of cloth at top of spine. Solid text block, free of any marks or notations. Toning to endpapers. (Grinstein 227) A very good example with the scarce errata slip present.
This book was first published in 1900 [i.e. 1899] in German, under the title Die Traumdeutung. It introduces the idea of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation and discusses attributes that would later become the theory of the Oedipus complex. This is the first appearance of The Interpretation of Dreams by Professor Freud in English, translated from the third German edition, published in 1911.