"Porteous's Lodgings, 18 Duncan Street" [Edinburgh]: Sat. December 29, [1830]. A short, poignant note from the great essayist, memoirist, and biographer of the Lake Poets, begging to be excused from an engagement as his wife and daughter are sick. The small scrap of paper, without wax seal, suggest the author's..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("Thos. De Quincey"), to "My Dear Sir"
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London: Taylor and Hessey, 1822. First edition. The Classic of Opium Addiction. First edition of the first part of De Quincey's classic, the author’s first book, the complete text of which did not appear until Boston, 1850. “Thomas De Quincey began using opium in 1802 and continued to use it..... Read More about Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1853-1857. Signed by Whiteiaw Reid (1837-1912), newspaperman, Ambassador to France, canidate for Vice-President in 1892 on title-page on also genereally in two other places some dated 1857. Read More about Writings of Thomas De Quincey
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. First American edition. Read More about Beauties, Selected from the Writings of …
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New York: Payson & Clarke, [1927]. Number 526 of 1500 copies. Facsimile. Read More about A Diary of Thomas De Quincey 1803. Here reproduced in replica as well as in print from the...
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