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THE ROMANTICS: PART II. D-R ISBN: 978 1 900718 99 8 Price £5.00 Front cover: portrait of John Keats, see item 267; rear cover: item 326. Brian Lake Janet Nassau DE QUINCEY DE QUINCEY, Thomas, 1785-1859 Born in Manchester into a family of prosperous textile merchants, De Quincey absconded from school at the age of sixteen, and came close to starvation while living on the streets of, at first Manchester, and then London, where he had his first encounters with opium. He eventually returned to his family, but his experiences forged a lasting impression, and would inform much of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater which caused a sensation when first serialised in the London Magazine in 1821. He became a prolific essayist, and wrote one novel, Klosterheim, first published in 1832. See also items 174 & 353. Individual Works CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER 1. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. FIRST EDITION. Printed for Taylor & Hessey. Bound without half title or final ad. leaf; the odd spot; early newspaper clipping with biographical detail pasted in at end of ‘notice to the reader’. Contemp. half green morocco, spine gilt in compartments; spine sl. faded. Contemp. owner’s monogram on titlepage. A v.g. attractive copy. ¶Confessions of an English Opium-Eater was first published anonymously in the London Magazine in the autumn of 1821. A candid account of an all-consuming addiction, it became an overnight sensation, and would eventually make De Quincey a household name. The first book edition appeared the following year, the fourth edition in 1826. It was revised by De Quincey for Hogg’s collected edition of 1856, but the author’s sprawling revisions (the work more than doubled in length) were not entirely successful, the rawness of the original text being lost in biographical detail. 1822 £680 2. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. 2nd edn. Printed for Taylor & Hessey. One gathering sl. proud. Contemp. half calf, black leather label; at some time rebacked, rubbed, with some loss of marbled paper on following board, head of spine chipped, inner hinges repaired. Small bookseller’s ticket: I. Wilson, Hull. A sound copy only. ¶With an early owner’s inscription on verso of leading f.e.p., which references Edward Barnard’s The Protestant Beadsman (1822). 1823 £100 3. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. 3rd edn. Printed for Taylor & Hessey. Contemp. half calf, black leather label; spine & corners rubbed, hinges splitting. Armorial bookplate of Sir Joseph Verdin, Bart. Internally v. clean. 1823 £120 REVISED 4. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Now first carefully revised by the author, and greatly enlarged. 2nd edn. Edinburgh: James Hogg. (Selections Grave and Gay, vol. 5.) Orig. black cloth; spine carefully replaced with plain black cloth. v.g. ¶With the original preface for the 1821 first edition, and a new prefatory notice by the author dated Nov. 1856, indicating ‘revision of the entire work’. This is the fifth volume of a 14 volume collection of De Quincey’s works, published by James Hogg between 1853 & 1860, under the title Selections Grave & Gay. 1856 £150 KLOSTERHEIM ORIGINAL BOARDS 5. Klosterheim: or, The Masque. By the English Opium-Eater. FIRST EDITION. Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T. Cadell. Half title, final ad. leaf. Uncut in orig. drab boards, purple cloth spine, paper label sl. chipped; spine sl. dulled. Booklabels of Rev. H.J. Vincent DE QUINCEY & C.C. Geest. A good-plus copy in brown cloth & morocco double slipcase. ¶Wolff 1785; not in Sadleir. Set in 17th century Bavaria, Klosterheim was De Quincey’s only novel. A work rooted firmly in the gothic tradition, it follows the fortunes of a besieged city, attacked from without by hostile Swedish troops, and from within by a mysterious and vengeful masked murderer. 1832 £480 6. Klosterheim: or, The Masque. ... FIRST EDITION. Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T. Cadell. Half title with small tear in outer margin without loss. Contemp. half maroon calf, black leather label; hinges & corners a bit rubbed. Booklabel of Douglas Grant. 1832 £225 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION 7. Klosterheim; or, The Masque. With a biographical preface, by Shelton Mackenzie. Boston: Whittemore, Niles, & Hall. Some gatherings browned. Orig. dark blue cloth, blocked in blind; spine darkened, rubbed. ¶The first American edition. 1855 £40 AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES FIRST SERIES 8. Autobiographic Sketches. FIRST EDITION. Edinburgh: James Hogg. (Selections Grave and Gay, vol. 1.) Half title, final errata leaf. Orig. black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; leading hinge splitting & carefully repaired. A good-plus copy. ¶The first volume; including essays on ‘the nation of London’, Dublin, the French invasion of Ireland, infant literature, &c. ‘...in part they are to be viewed as entirely new...’ (Preface). 1853 £75 SECOND SERIES: AUGUSTUS HARE’S COPY 9. Autobiographic Sketches. FIRST EDITION. Edinburgh: James Hogg. (Selections Grave and Gay, vol. 2). Half title, errata slip. Orig. black cloth; spine sl. marked & chipped at head & tail. Armorial bookplate & label of Augustus J. C. Hare. ¶The second volume; assembled and enlarged from periodical articles, including essays on Grasmere, Coleridge, Wordsworth and Southey. 1854 £65 LETTERS TO A YOUNG MAN 10. Letters to a Young Man, and other papers. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Damp staining to outer margin of initial blank & sl. affecting title. Orig. dark brown cloth, blocked in blind. v.g. ¶Published in England as volume 14 of Selections Grave and Gay, 1860. This American edition is the first separate publication of this collection. Includes chapters on French and English manners, and California and the gold mania. 1858 £75 SPECULATIONS LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHIC 11. Speculations Literary and Philosophic. Stereotype edn. Edinburgh: James Hogg. (Selections Grave and Gay vol. 13.) Orig. black cloth; spine rubbed at head, otherwise v.g. ¶Includes De Quincey’s essay on Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister, A Universal History, Herder, and Lessing. [1860?] £45 DE QUINCEY RICHARD BENTLEY 12. Richard Bentley, and other writings. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black. Half title, front. port; sl. spotted, faint traces of damp staining to outer margin of last few leaves. Contemp. blue binders’ cloth; spine darkened, a little rubbed. ¶Volume VI of De Quincey’s Works. Includes essays on Judas Iscariot, Cicero, Secret Societies, & Milton. 1863 £20 Biography &c. 13. FINDLAY, John Ritchie. Personal Recollections of Thomas De Quincey. FIRST EDITION. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black. Half title, front., titlepage with miniature port. onlay, one other plate. Uncut in orig. grey cloth, gilt, lettered in gilt; corners sl. bumped. v.g. ¶Based on notes of conversations 1852-59. 1886 £35 14. PAGE, H.A., pseud. (Alexander Hay Japp) Thomas De Quincey: his life and writings ... With unpublished correspondence. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. John Hogg. Half titles, front. & 2pp ads vol. I, 4pp ads vol. II. Orig. brown cloth by Simpson & Renshaw; sl. marked, otherwise a v.g. bright copy. 1877 £68 ‘ALMOST A NEW BOOK’ 15. JAPP, Alexander Hay. Thomas De Quincey: his life and writings. With unpublished correspondence. New edn, thoroughly revised, and rearranged with additional matter. With portraits, &c. John Hogg. Half title, front., 7pp cata. Uncut in orig. red cloth, spine lettered in black & gilt; spine sl. faded. v.g. ¶Published under Japp’s own name. New Preface: ‘This edition is almost a new book. Much has been added, much retrenched, many excrescences due to the circumstances under which the first edition was written pruned away’. 1890 £40 __________ GODWIN, William, 1756-1836 Although successful as a novelist, essayist and dramatist, it is for his groundbreaking works of political philosophy that Godwin is chiefly remembered. His most influential work was An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, 1793, which attacked existing political institutions, and presented a system of fairer governance based on principles of education and enlightenment. His politics were evident in his fiction too, in particular inThings as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams, 1794, which in part constituted a critique of aristocratic privilege.