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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.

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De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859).
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London, Printed for John Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1822. 12:o. vj, 206 pp. Full dark red morocco (Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London) with five raised bands, gilt title to spine, gilt borders and blind pressed decor to covers. Gilt inner dentelles, gilt top edge. Lacks 2 pp. publisher’s ads at end. Endpapers covered with green silk, FFEP with some closed tear at outer margin. Bookplate mounted verso ffep, with name label of Denis Leigh hiding the name.

110 000 kr

Norman Catalogue 619 ‘The most famous account of drug addiction in English literature’. ‘This book ... relates how he was led by physical suffering and nervous irritation first to take opium, and then to increase his consumption of it ... He describes the fearful effects, chiefly in the form of tumultuous dreams, brought about by this abuse of the drug ... [and] the gradual reduction that he effected in his daily dose’ (Oxford Companion to English Literature). First edition in book form. Originally published in London Magazine, Oct. and Nov. 1821.

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