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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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