Antiques, Estate & Job Lot Auction – 9 October 2025

Antiques, Estate & Job Lot Auction – 9 October 2025

Catalogue

Lot 65: Thomas De Quincey, The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Illustrated by Sonia Woolf, 1930 First Edition

This auction ended on October 9, 2025.

Estimated price: £50 - £80

Buyer's Premium: 18%

Not sold

Thomas De Quincey, *The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater*, illustrated and decorated by Sonia Woolf, first edition thus, published in 1930. This green cloth-bound hardcover book features a gilt-stamped title and an ornate decorative panel on the front cover, displaying stylized figures and landscapes consistent with an Art Nouveau or early 20th-century aesthetic. The book was published in London by John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. and in New York by Dodd, Mead and Company.