NMLP P-041564 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Thomas De Quincey · Taylor and Hessey, London (printed by J. Moyes) · 1822
No book-club issue is documented for an 1822 title. The tells to watch are the many later reprintings of what is a short, endlessly reissued book: the American collected 'De Quincey's Writings' (Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, from 1850) carries an expanded text, the 1856 Hogg 'Selections Grave and Gay' Volume V carries the revised text, and 19th- and 20th-century trade, Everyman and Modern Library issues reprint one or the other. Any copy naming De Quincey on the title page is by definition not the 1822 anonymous first.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-041564 for "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" by Thomas De Quincey (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041564, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).