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The Works Of Thomas De Quincey "The English Opium Eater" Including All His Contributions To Periodical Literature [With] Suspira De Profundis. Being A Sequel To The Confessions Of An English Opium Eater And Other Miscellaneous Writings [With] Kant In His Miscellaneous Essays And Logic Of Political Economy (17 Volumes)
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1862-63 / 1871 / 1878 Second edition of the 15 volumes set plus the two supplementary volumes which are infrequently found bound up with the main set. Crown 8vo (7.5 x 5 ins) Bound in purple half levant morocco over marbled boards, top edge of the pages gilt. Engraved frontispiece in each of first fifteen vols, not called for in additional vols. Extremities rubbed in most vols mainly edges and caps of spines. Bookplate of Henry W. Ryland depicting an arm grasping three heads of corn below the legend 'Extremos Pudeat Rediisse'. ('Let them be ashamed to come in last').
A handsome set.
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