The Travel-Diaries of William Beckford of Fonthill. Edited with a Memoir and Notes by Guy Chapman.
Cambridge: Printed at the University of Cambridge for Constable and Company Limited & Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. One of a limited edition of 1000 sets. Original quarter olive green cloth with printed paper labels to the spines and light grey boards. Untrimmed except for the top edges. Errata slip bound in opposite the Preface in volume 1. Frontispiece and a few plates to each volume. Some light marking to the spines and boards. Prelims of volume 1 slightly foxed. Partially unopened. Very good +. Item #6944
Volume 1: Memoir of William Beckford; Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents. Volume 2: Sketches of Spain & Portugal; Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaca and Batalha.
Price: £80.00