[DE QUINCEY, THOMAS]. The Collected Writings. London: A. & C. Black, 1896.
Hardcover. In fourteen volumes, complete. Octavo (180 x 130mm), pp. [xxvii], 416; [vi], 454; [vi], 472; [6], 439; [6], 416; [6], 447; [6], 456; [6], 451; [vii],444, [viii], 455, [vi], 474, [6], 467, [vi], 448, [vi], 447. Half leather. Finely bound in contemporary half calf, five raised bands, spines gilt with twin morocco title plates, marbled boards, endpapers and pastedowns, top edges gilt, half titles, title-pages in red and black set within a nouveau border, portrait frontispiece plus illustrations in the text in volume I, indexes, initial and terminal blanks present. Contents consisting volume I: Autobiography from 1785 to 1803, volume II: Autobiography and Literary Reminiscences, volume III: London Reminiscences and Confessions of an Opium-Eater, volume IV: Biographies and Biographic Sketches, volume V: Biographies and Biographic Sketches, volume VI: Historical Essays and Researches, volume VII: Historical Essays and Researches, volume VIII: Speculative and Theological Essays, volume IX: Political Economy and Politics, volume X: Literary Theory and Criticism, volume XI: Literary Theory and Criticism, volume XII: Tales and Romances, volume XIII: Tales and Prose Phantasies, volume XIV: Miscellanea and Index. Condition: NEAR FINE. Collated complete, bindings tight and secure, very minor rubbing to some extremities, covers clean, textblock immaculate, without inscriptions, inking or book-plates. A handsome set in excellent condition.
