[DE QUINCEY, THOMAS]. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1822. 12mo, tan morocco gilt, green and brown morocco spine labels, g.e., advertisement leaf at end wanting, some mild foxing, maroon morocco pull off case. FIRST EDITION of the first part of this work (the whole not appearing until 1850), with the half title. Tinker 817; Greenwald, "High"-spots of Drug Literature 14.. "If opium-eating be a sensual pleasure...I have indulged in it to an excess, not yet recorded of any other man..." (Confessions, p. 4). Pictorial bookplate of Gilbert R. Redgrave and long ownership inscription by him, dated 1899, on front flyleaf.