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[William Beckford] Three works: Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries

of Alcobaça and Batalha. By the Author of "Vathek" [=Beckford]. London, Richard Bentley, 1835. (4),xi,228,(4) p., with engraved frontispiece portrait of Beckford by T.A. Dean after Sir Joshua Reynolds, later half leather with marbled boards, raised bands with gilt title, 8vo (boards rubbed, contents slightly stained, renewed endpapers, else good). First edition.

With: The History of the Caliph Vathek. By William Beckford, Esq. (...) Also Rasselas: Prince of Abyssinia. By Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London, J.C. Nimmo and Bain, 1883. XVII,405,(7) p., complete with frontispiece portrait of Beckford and 4 etchings, title page in red and black, later cloth binding, 8vo (binding rubbed, renewed endpapers; beginning and end foxed/stained, final endpaper split across hinge, else good). And with: William Beckford of Fonthill. 1760-1844. Bicentenary Essays. Edited by Fatma Moussa Mahmoud. Port Washington/London, Kennikat, 1972. (10)157,(3) p., cloth, in good condition. (total 3)

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