De Quincey's Works.; XVI Volume Set.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1862 ; 1863 ; 1871. Hardcover : Confessions of an Opium Eater pp. 920 [iii] xv [xvi] [1] 290 : Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets Coleridge, Wordworth, and Southery pp. [v] vi [viii] [1] 244 : Last Days of Immanuel Kant and Other Writings pp. [iv] [3] 342 [2 blank] : The English Mail Coach and Other Writings pp. (2) [v] xiv [1] 352 : Dr Samuel Parr or Whiggism in it's Relations to Literature and Other Writings pp. (6) [i] ix [x] [1] 395 [1 blank] : Richard Bentley and Other Writings pp. [vii] xvi [1] 333 [3 blank] : Protestantism and Other Essays pp. (6) [i] iv [1] 352 : Leaders in Literature with a Notice of Traditional Errors Affecting Them pp. [vii] xii [1] 332 : The Caesars and Other Papers pp. (2) [v] xii [1] 310 : Style and Rhetoric and Other Papers pp. (2) [v] xxiii [xxiv] [1] 326 : Coleridge and Opium-Eating and Other Writings pp. (2) [v] vii [viii] [1] 333 : Speculations Literary and Philosophic pp. [vii] xviii [1] 303 [1 blank] : The Art of Conversation and Other Papers pp. [9] 332 : Autobiographic Sketches 1790-1803 pp. [v] vi [vii] [1] 467 [1 blank] : Biographies of Shakespeare, Pope, Goethe and Schiller and of the Political Parties of Modern England pp. [2 blank] [v] vii [x] [1] 376 [v] vi [viii] : Suspiria De Profundis Being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Miscellaneous Writings pp. [vii] viii [1] 580 : frontispiece and tissue guard to some volumes : occasional illustration : prefatory memoranda (Vol X) : folded facsimile of Mr De Quincey's manuscript (Vol XV) : tipped in publisher's ''The Next Volume'' advertisement to some volumes : bright blue cloth boards : paper spine labels.
Board edges a little bumped and bruised; spine labels in assorted conditions; first few leaves of Vol VI coming away at hinge; bookplate of R.K. Green to all volumes of front paste-down except Vols III and VI, in which is at the back; head and tail of spines pushed and chipped; pages 106-107 newspaper stained at head; page 357 (Vol XIV) present but detached; spine label of Vol X has come away but is loosely laid with-in; with a handwritten letter postmarked Launceston [19]05 loosely laid with-in Vol XV. Good. Item #4222
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