On Style and Conversation: A Series of Essays

QUINCEY, Thomas De.

$175.00

Item Number: 145230

Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1862.

First edition of this collection of selected works in their original form. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth elaborately stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine, elaborate blind stamping to the front and rear panels, forest green endpapers. In very good condition with some rubbing to the spine.

Best known for his 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,' De Quincey also published a significant number of critical essays in European newspapers and magazines, a handful of which are contained in this collection, including 'Letters to a Young Man Whose Education Has Been Neglected.'