Biographical Essays
by De Quincey, Thomas
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4, [6], 284 p.; 19 cm. Original brown ribbed publisher's cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; boards have blind-stamped center medallions and borders. Pale yellow endpapers. This is the second volume in the publisher's series De Quincey's Writings. The verso of the half title page states that a "third volume will shortly be issued." A 4-page publisher's catalog is bound in between the front endpapers, dated Oct. 1850. Contents: Shakespeare -- Pope -- Charles Lamb -- Goethe -- Schiller. In Very Good Condition: edges and corners rubbed; cloth lacking at ends of spine; pages are clean and bright.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001938
- Title
- Biographical Essays
- Author
- De Quincey, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1850
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography;
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