HKVKY L. SHKPARD & O .). S PUBLICATION^. 



RE-ISSUE OF DE QUINCEY'S WORKS. 



Messrs. HENRY L. SHEPARD & CO., 



Take pleasure in announcing the completion of their illustrated edition of 

 the works of THOMAS DE QUINCEY, "The English Opium-Eater,'' includ- 

 ing all his contributions to periodical literature. 



The wonderful productions of this "great master of English composition" 

 have not hitherto enjoyed the advantages of ready perusal. Whether this has 

 been owing to their having been so long embedded in the anonymous pages of 

 various periodicals, or published at too high a price, and too inferiority when after- 

 wards collected, it is difficult to say, but certain it is that they have never received 

 that justice in the way of publication which has been awarded to many works of 

 even inferior pretensions. 



The publication of this re-issue of De Quincey's Works has been undertaken 

 with the view of remedying this defect, and of bringing the writings of so gifted 

 an author within easy range of those who may wish to possess them. 



The series are printed on fine toned paper, in beautiful clear type, and are 

 fully illustrated with Steel Engravings. 



The price is $1.50 per volume, $24 for the set, a price which we hope will 

 encourage the purchase of writings which have been well characterized "as a 

 combination which centuries may never reproduce, but which every generation 

 should study as one of the marvels of English literature. 



It is the only complete and illustrated edition, and the only edition containing 

 a general index. 



CONTENTS : 



Vol I. Confessions of an English Opium Eater. Vol. II. Recollections of the 

 Lakes. Vol. III. Spanish Nun ; Last Days of Kant; Joan of Arc: Roman 

 Meals; Superstition. Vol. IV. Murder as one of the Fine Arts; Templar's 

 Dialogue on War ; The English Mail Coach. Vol. V. Shelley ; Whiggism : 

 Goldsmith; Wordsworth's Poetry; John Keats ; Homer. Vol. VI. Judas 

 Iscariot ; Richard Bentley ; Cicero; Secret Societies; Milton. Vol. VII. 

 Walking Stewart; Wellesley ; Schlosser; Protestanism ; Pagan Oracles: 

 Miracles; Casuistry; Greece under Romans. Vol. VIII. Pope; GivtA 

 Tragedy; Language; Manners; Charles Lamb ; Herodotus; Plato's Repub 

 lie ; Sortilege. Vol. IX. The Caesars ; The Theban Sphinx ; The Essenes : 

 .Klius Lauria. Vol. X. The Incognito; Rhetoric; Life of Milton; Revolu- 

 tion of Greece; Style; The Dice. Vol. XI. Coleridge and Opium Eating; 

 Hebrew Lady; Temperance Movements; Milton and Southey ; Christianity. 

 etc. Vol. XII. Carlyle on Pope ; Mackintosh's Works; Anecdotage ; Her- 

 der; Universal History; Charlemagne; Goethe; Lessing. Vol. XIII. 

 Letters, etc. ; Orthography ; J. P. F. Richter ; Conversation ; Presence of 

 Mind ; Macbeth ; Sophocles ; Traditions of Rabbins ; Modern Greece. Vol. 

 XIV. Autobiographic Sketches. Vol. XV. Biographies: Shakespeare, 

 Pope, Goethe, Schiller ; Tory's Account of Toryism ; Political Parties. Vol. 

 XVI. Suspiria ; Chronology; Wilson; Hamilton; California; China; 

 National Character ; Freemasonry; Notes from Porket-Book. General index. 



