It is a curious fact that the first complete edition of De
Quincey's works was issued in Boston in twenty volumes
(1850-1855) by Ticknor & Fields. Much of the material was
gathered from English periodicals, as De Quincey was the
greatest magazine writer of his age. This was followed by the
Riverside edition in twelve volumes (Boston, 1877). The
standard English edition is _The Collected Writings of Thomas
De Quincey_, fourteen volumes, edited by David Masson
(1889-1890). A.H. Japp wrote the standard English _Life of De
Quincey_ (London, two volumes, 1879). The best short life is
Masson's in the English Men of Letters series. George
Saintsbury gives a good sketch of De Quincey in _Essays in
English Literature_. Other estimates may be found in the
following works: Leslie Stephen, _Hours in a Library_; H.A.
Page, _De Quincey, His Life and Writings_ and in Mrs.
Oliphant's _Literary History of England_.