The principles of psychology. 2 vols.

The foundation of the American school of experimental psychology. Under the influence of Wundt, James viewed psychology as an experimental science based on physiology. He founded the earliest laboratory for the study of experimental psychology in America.
The Principles was printed from stereotype plates, with numerous printings all made from the original set of plates. The first impression can be distinguished by the reading “the seat of intellectual power” in Vol. I, p. 10, lines 9-10, and by the reading “object of sensation” in Vol. II, p. 101, line 20.