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Confessions of an opium-eater / by Thomas De Quincey.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Roycroft 20
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Opium abuse--England.
- Opium abuse.
- England.
- De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859.
- De Quincey, Thomas.
- Genre:
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Physical Description:
- 188 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- East Aurora, N.Y. : Roycroft Shop, 1898.
- Notes:
- 925 copies. Signed by Elbert Hubbard.
- The body of text is Old Style Antiqua and 925 copies were printed on Boxmoor paper and bound in paper over boards with a suede spine. Two cover variants of this book exist. One variant is entitled Confessions of an Opium Eater and has three ornaments. The other variant is entitled The Opium Eater and has no cover ornaments.--cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]
- No. 21 of 925 copies. Signed by Elbert Hubbard.
- Local Notes:
- Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Roycroft Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 434. Cover is variant one.
- Cited in:
- McKenna, P. Roycroft, 20
- Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-031-98
- Other Format:
- Online version: De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859. Confessions of an opium-eater.
- OCLC:
- 2767824
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