Description: Spiess, Christian Heinrich (1755-1799) Biographien der Wahnsinnigen. Leipzig: [No Printer], 1796-1803.Three parts in one, octavo; these editions with no engraved frontispieces or titles; text in black letter, bound in marbled paper covered boards, 6 3/4 x 3 7/8 in.Spiess wrote these Biographies of the Mad, along with other gothic novels and works of romance and horror involving ghosts and knights in Medieval settings. His work influenced other novelists in the genre, and saw great popularity.From Dr. Michael Stone's Psychiatry Collection.