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1853-1863 The Works of Thomas De Quincey
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A beautifully bound full calf fifteen volume set of the works of English writer, essayist, and literary critic Thomas De Quincey.
Uniformly bound in full calf signed bindings by M. Ogle
Co.
Volumes I-XIV are published between 1852 and 1860 by James Hogg, while volume XV is the final volume of Adam
Charles Black's fifteenth volume, published in 1863.
Best known for his 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater', many scholars believe that with this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West.
Present here are:
Volume I: Autobiographic Sketches, 1853, pub. James Hogg.
Volume II: Autobiographic Sketches: With Recollections of the Lakes, 1854.
Volume III: Miscellanies: Chiefly Narrative, 1854.
Volume IV: Miscellanies, 1854.
Volume V: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1856.
Volume VI: Sketches: Critical and Biographic, 1857.
Volume VII: Studies on Secret Records, 1857.
Volume VIII: Essays Sceptical and Anti-Sceptical, 1858.
Volume IX: Leaders in Literature, 1858.
Volume X: Classic Records Reviewed or Deciphered, 1859.
Volume XI: Critical Suggestions on Style and Rhetoric, 1859.
Volume XII: Speculations, Literary and Philosophic, 1859.
Volume XIII: Speculations, Literary and Philosophic, 1859.
Volume XIV: Letters to a Young Man, 1860, with a frontispiece.
Volume XV: The Works of Thomas De Quincey including all his Contributions to Periodical Literature, Second Edition, A&C Black, 1863, volume XV 'Biographies of Shakespeare, Pope, Goethe, and Schiller'. Illustrated with a frontispiece and folding plate.
In full calf signed bindings, with extensive gilt detailing to back strips. Externally, excellent. A touch of rubbing to back strip heads and tails, and joint heads. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright.
Overall: Near Fine
- Creator:Thomas De Quincey (Author)
- Dimensions:Height: 7.5 in (19.05 cm)Width: 15 in (38.1 cm)Depth: 5.5 in (13.97 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1853-1863
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- Seller Location:Bath, GB
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