The collected writings of Thomas De Quincey
By: by David Masson
Contributors: Masson, David, 1822-1907; Adam and Charles Black (Firm); R. & R. Clark (Firm); W. Heffer & Sons; Dublin Bookshop
Publisher: A. & C. Black, Soho Square
Published: 1896
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: English Authors; English literature; Literary collections
Other titles: Confessions of an English opium-eater; 1798 Irish Rebellion Collection (Boston Public Library); Irish History and Culture Collection (Boston Public Library)
Notes: Title in red and black with ornamental blocked borders; includes publishers' advertising matter following text.

Signatures (volume 1): [Áþ] B-2D́ı

Signatures (volume 2): [A℗ø] B-2F́ı 2Ǵþ

Text in English.

Catalogued 20161214 bhealy

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in navy blue publisher's cloth over boards. Spine title, author, volume numeration, imprint, and ornamental set of initials ("TDQ") stamped in gilt. Black endpapers. Printed on wove papers. Gilt head edges. Volume no.1 features booksellers' label of W. Heffer and Sons at tail of front pastedown. Free front endpaper verso features second-hand booksellers' price in pencil script at head, and ink stamp of Dublin Bookshop at tail. Half-title head features annotation in pencil script. Volume no.2 features second-hand booksellers' price in pencil script, and ink stamp of the Dublin Bookshop, on verso of free front endpaper. Leaf opposite features numerical marking (possibly shelf mark) in pencil script at tail. Half-title features annotation in pencil script at head. Some marginalia throughout volumes.
Table of contents: title: I. Autobiography from 1785 to 1808.-II. Autobiography and literary reminiscences.-III. London reminiscences and Confessions of an opium-eater.-IV.-V. Biographies and biographic sketches.-VI.-VII. Historical essays and researches.-VIII. Speculative and theological essays.-IX. Political economy and politics.-X-XI. Literary theory and criticism.-XII. Tales and romances.-XIII. Tales andprose phantasies.-XIV. Miscellanea and index.