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Creator:: Beckford, William, 1760-1844
Title:: Vathek / by William Beckford ; a new translation by Herbert B. Grimsditch ; with ten illustrations by Marion V. Dorn.
Alternate Title(s):: Vathek. English
Published / Created:: Bloomsbury : The Nonesuch Press, 16 Great James Street, 1929.
Physical Description:: [4], 172, [2] pages, [8] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Translated from the French.
Subject Terms:: Arab countries -- Fiction. | Middle East -- Fiction. | Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. | Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 -- Bookplate. | Porter, Linda Lee Thomas, d. 1954 -- Bookplate (SML,AOB X178 N73 Z929B).
Form/Genre:: Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London. | Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1929. | Gothic fiction. | Fantasy fiction. | Fiction.
Contributors:: Grimsditch, Herbert B. (Herbert Borthwick), 1898-, translator. | Dorn, Marion, 1896-1964, illustrator. | Nonesuch Press, publisher. | Curwen Press, printer of plates.