By William Beckford
London   The Nonesuch Press
9" by 6.5" 172pp.
A limited edition, newly translated copy of William Beckford's gothic tale, illustrated by Marion V. Dorn.
By William Beckford

1929 Vathek

London   The Nonesuch Press
9" by 6.5" 172pp.
A limited edition, newly translated copy of William Beckford's gothic tale, illustrated by Marion V. Dorn.
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Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Limited Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Limited edition. Number 731 out of 1050.

Private press. 

Illustrated by Marion V. Dorn with a colour frontispiece, a headpiece and six colour plates. Collated complete.

With an introduction by the translator Herbert B. Grimsditch. 

This limited edition work features a beautifully colour illustrated copy of William Beckford's popular gothic novel, Vathek, otherwise known as Vathek: An Arabian Tale or History of the Caliph Vathek.

Condition

In the publisher's original quarter vellum with cloth to the boards. Externally smart with bumping and slight rubbing to the extremities, minor marks to the boards and handling marks to the spine. Internally, firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with the odd spot only.

Very Good

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