[Rarebooks] FS: CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, 1823

[Charles Agvent]

DE QUINCEY, THOMAS. CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER. London: 
Taylor and Hessey, 1823. Third Edition. Third Edition, published 
anonymously, bound in contemporary diced Russia leather with marbled 
edges and endpapers; iv, 206 pages. First published in book form in 
1822, De Quincey's autobiographical study of his opium addiction is the 
first literary text in English to chart the evolution of a drug addict. 
In small script on the rule below the title on the title page is written 
"De Quincey" in a hand very similar to the author's but very likely not 
his. There are no advertisements bound at the end of this copy, as were 
at least with the first two editions. Recently rebacked retaining nearly 
all of the original spine but not the spine label. Near Fine.    $450.00	

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