Beauties, Selected from the Writings of Thomas de Quincey
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2351640
Reprint. First gathering loosening, ink owner stamp on prelims, corners slightly exposed.
47 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of author. Thomas Penson De Quincey was an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West. This volume includes selections from De Quincey's Early Life; Dreams; and Narratives, with an introductory note.
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