The collected writings of Thomas De Quincey
Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)
Category
Books
Date
1896 - 1897
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3065570
Summary
Bibliographic description
14v.,plate (frontis.) . ill..,port.. . 8vo.. With unopened leaves in the later volumes. MS. marks and notes (critical), including dates of reading: Sept. 5th 1904 (vol. II); Sept. 6th 1904, Sept. 18 1904 and Dec. 17 1938 (vol. III); Oct. 21; Sept. 4; Sept. 29 1904 (Vol.XIII). With a slip from the publisher inserted in Vol. V stating that it has not been possible to include all the illustrations of the earlier edition of 1889-90 ' in consideration of the cheaper rate of issue'.. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Publisher's cloth; gilt decorated and lettered on spine.
Makers and roles
Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) David Masson (1822-1907)