Thomas De Quincey's Writings (Writings of Thomas De Quincey) - 19 volumes of 23

  • Hardcover
  • Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1861
By De Quincey, Thomas
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1861. Some stereotyped editions. Hardcover. Very Good. Lacks Memorials (2 vols); The Avenger; Logic of Political Economy. Duodecimo [19 cm] Brown cloth over boards with the title in gilt on the spine and embossed ornamental designs on the boards. Pale yellow endpapers. Frontispice portrait of the author in "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" and "Life and Manners." Light wear to the extremities. Spines unevenly sunned. Armorial bookplates on the front pastedowns. Occasional markings on the front free endpapers.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Suspira de Profundis- Stereotyped by Hobart & Robbins (1853, Stereotype); Biographical Essays (1861); Miscellaneous Essays (1854); The Cæsars (1854); Life and Manners (1851); Literary Reminiscences. In Two Volumes; From the Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater. In Two Volumes (1854); Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers. In Two Volumes (1854, Stereotype); Essays on the Poets and Other English Writers (1853); Historical and Critical Essays (1853); Autobiographic Sketches (1853, Stereotype); Essays on Philosophical Writers and Other Men of Letters. In Two Volumes (1854); Letters to a Young Man and Other Papers (1854); Theological Essays and Other Papers. In Two Volumes (1854); The Note Book of An English Opium Eater (1855, Stereotype). A uniform edition of De Quincey's works. Because it was issued over a period of time, complete sets are scarce.

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