1853-1863 The Works of Thomas De Quincey

Description

Folding Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Signed Binding

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.