In the Press.
In the Press.
In Two Volumes, Demy 8vo,
De Quincey Memorials.
IN LETTERS AND OTHER RECORDS HERE FIRST PUBLISHED, WITH COMMUNICATIONS FROM COLERIDGE, THE WORDSWORTHS, MRS. HANNAH MORE, PROFESSOR WILSON, AND OTHERS OF NOTE.
IN LETTERS AND OTHER RECORDS HERE FIRST PUBLISHED, WITH COMMUNICATIONS FROM COLERIDGE, THE WORDSWORTHS, MRS. HANNAH MORE, PROFESSOR WILSON, AND OTHERS OF NOTE.
Edited, with Introduction, Notes, and Narrative,
ByALEXANDER H. JAPP, LL.D., F.R.S.E.
These volumes include letters to De Quincey from his mother whilst he was still at school, from his sisters Jane and Mary, his brothers Henry and Richard, and his guardian, the Rev. Samuel Hall. Letters also from the Marquis of Sligo, Professor Wilson, Sir W. Hamilton, “Cyril Thornton,” Hannah More, the Brontës, Coleridge, Professor T. P. Nichol, the Wordsworths, and many others, add to the value of the book, and with De Quincey’s own letters, throw new light on many points in his career, and present confirmation by documentary evidence of the truth of some of his statements regarding the most extraordinary incidents in his early career, some of which have been doubted at various times.
The work will be handsomely printed, in two volumes, and will be illustrated by various portraits of De Quincey and members of the De Quincey family.