Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

London: Taylor and Hessey, 1822.
First Edition.

17.5cm x 10cm. vi, 206 pages. Fine full red leather signed Zaehnsdorf binding, gilt lettering, blind patterned rule, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, cloth chemise, half leather and marbled papered slipcase.

First edition of the highly influential autobiographical account of De Quincey’s laudanum addiction. The establishing literary work in the artistic field of drug taking and creative expression. This copy with the half-title and without the advertisement leaf, in a fine signed 1911 Zaehnsdorf binding, with protective case.

Very minor rubbing to a couple of the corners. Very minor soiling and foxing. Short closed tear to tail margin of page 121/2. The slipcase with some discolouration and marks to spine. Near Fine Condition.

AU$5,500.00

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