Conversation

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1896. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Boards a bit soiled, minor loss from corners, endpapers a bit foxed. 1896 Hard Cover. 47 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of author. Thomas Penson De Quincey was an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West.