Early in 1891.
Early in 1891.
In two Volumes, Crown 8vo,
THE POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY.
Volume I.
ADDITIONAL SUSPIRIA DE PROFUNDIS.
WITH ESSAYS, CRITICAL, HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, IMAGINATIVE, AND HUMOROUS.
Volume II.
CONVERSATION AND COLERIDGE.
WITH OTHER ESSAYS.
Recovered from the Author’s Original MSS., and Edited byAlexander H. Japp, LL.D., F.R.S.E., &c.
In announcing a collection of unpublished writings of De Quincey, the publisher believes he is presenting to the public an essential addition to every library, as without these volumes the editions of De Quincey’s works now before the public will be incomplete. The additionalSuspiriaalone would justify this claim for it, some of them being absolutely necessary to complete the significance of theSuspiriaalready published. In addition to this there are other essays, on history, speculation, criticism, and theology, which will attract and appeal to a varied class of readers. A collection of notes under the headingBreviaare added, which will give the reader closer access to De Quincey in his private life and thoughts than anything that has hitherto been published. By means of these notes the reader is, as it were, introduced to the opium-eater when he was communing with himself by means of his pen.