Bibliography
From "Thomas De Quincey" by H.S. Davies
(Place of publication London, unless stated otherwise)

A Select Bibliography

Collected Works

Selected Works

Separate Works

Letters And Diaries

Biography and Criticism


A Select Bibliography

THOMAS DE QUlNCEY: A BIBLIOGRAPHY BASED UPON THE DE QUINCEY COLLECTION IN THE MOSS SIDE LIBRARY, MANCHESTER, by J. A. Green. Manchester (1908)

THE CANON OF DE QUINCEY'S WRITINGS with some reference to his unidentified articles', by W.E.A. Axon In the 'Trans. Royal Soc. Lit.' xxxii, 1912


Collected Works

DE QUINCEY'S WRITINGS, ed J.T. Fields, 24 volumes Boston (1851-59) -unrevised text. Reprinted as Author's Library Edition, Boston (1878)

SELECTIONS GRAVE AND GAY FROM WRITINGS, PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED, - OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY, REVISED AND ARRANGED BY HIMSELF 14 vols Edinburgh (1853-60) Authors collected edition of his previously published writings enlarged, recast and revised.

THE COLLECTED WRITINGS, ed, with an introduction and notes, by D Masson - 14 vols. Edinburgh (1889-90) —the standard edition several times reprinted.

THE POSTHUMOUS WORKS, ed. from the original MSS. with an Introduction and Notes by A. H. Japp. 2 vols. (1895).


Selected Works

SELECTED ESSAYS, ed. D. Masson , 2 vols. (1888).

ESSAYS ed C. Whibley (1903).

DE QUINCEY'S LITERARY CRITICISM, ed. with an Introduction by H. Darbishire (1909).

THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH AND OTHER ESSAYS (1914) Everyman's Library edition.

THE ECSTASIES OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY, ed. T Burke (1928)

SELECTIONS FROM DE QUINCEY, ed. A. H. R. Ball (1932).

SELECTED WRITINGS OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY, ed. P. Van D. Stem New York (1937).

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LAKE POETS, ed. with an Introduction by E. Sackville-West (1948).

CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, TOGETHER WITH A SELECTION FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY, ed. E. Sackville-West (1950)


Separate Works

CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM EATER (1821). —revised, 1823; much enlarged, 1856; Everyman's ed. G Library; 1907; . Sainesbury, 1927; French translations by Baude Musset, 1828 and Baudelaire, 1860.

KLOSTERHEIM, OR THE MASQUE. Edinburgh (1832).

THE LOGIC OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. Edinburgh (1844).

CHINA (1857) —a revised reprint of article in Titan, with prefaces and additions.

THE WILDER HOPE: ESSAYS ON FUTURE PUNISHMENT, WITH A PAPER ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FOR ETERNITY (1890). Note: Among the many periodicals to which De Quincey contributed were the Westmorland Gazette (1818-19); the London Magazine (1821-5); Blackwoods Magazine (1826-8, 1830-4, 1837-45 1849); Tait's Magazine (1833-41, 1845-8, 1851)- Hoggs Instructor (1850-3); and Titan (1856-7).


Letters and Diaries

DE QUINCEY MEMORIALS, ed. A. H.Japp, 2 vols. (1891) 'Letters and other Records, with communications from Coleridge the Wordsworths . . .'

A DIARY OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY, 1803, ed. H. A. Eaton (1928).

DE QUINCEY AT WORK: AS SEEN IN ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY NEW AND NEWLY EDITED LETTERS, ed. W. H. Borlner. Buffalo (1936).

UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF THOMAS DE QUlNCEY AND ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, ed. S. Musgrave. Auckland (1954)

from the originals in the Grey Collection, Auckland Public Library.


Biography and Criticism

THOMAS DE QUINCEY: HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS, by H. A. Page [pseud. A. H. Japp] 2 vols- (1877) revised and enlarged, 1890.

REMINISCENCES, by T. Carlyle, ed.J. A. Froude, 2 vols. (1881).

DE QUINCEY, by D. Masson (1881) —In the English Men of Letters s. Series

PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF DE QUINCEY, by J. R. Findlay (1886 ).

DE QUINCEY AND HIS FRIENDS, by J. Hogg (1895).

BAUDELAIRE ET DE QUINCEY, par G.T. Clapton . (paris 1931)

DE QUINCEY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by V Woolf in the Common Reader, 2nd series, 1932.

THE MILK OF PARADISE:THE EFFECT OF OPIUM VISIONS ON THE WORKS OF DE QUINCEY, CRABBE, FRANCIS THOMPSON AND COLERIDGE, by M. H. Abrams Cambridge, Mass. (1934).

DE QUINCEY, by M. (1935 M Elwin )

THOMAS DE QUINCEY: A BIOGRAPHY, by H. A. Eaton. (1936 Oxford ).

A FLAME IN SUNLIGHT: THE LIFE AND WORK OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY, By E. Sackville-West (1936).

THOMAS DE QUINCEY, MYSTIQUE ET SYMBOLISTE, par G-A. Astre. (Paris 1937)

THOMAS DE QUINCEY: A PORTRAIT, by J. C. Metcalf(1941).

THOMAS DE QUINCEY'S THEORY OF LITERATURE, by S. K Proctor. Ann Arbor (1943)

THOMAS DE QUINCEY; LITERARY CRITIC: HIS METHOD AND ACHIEVEMENT by J. E. Jordan. Cambridge (1953).

'DE QUINCEY AS LITERARY CRITIC' by Clifford Leech, A Review of English Literature, Vol. 11 No. I.

DE QUINCEY ON "THE KNOCKING AT THE GATE" ' by Geoffrey Carnall, A Review of English Literature, Vol. II No. I.

THOMAS DE QUINCEY TO WORDSWORTH: A BIOGRAPHY OF A RELATIONSHIP, by J. E. Jordan. Cambridge (1962).