BECKFORD (William). VATHEK. London, Clarke, Mount Street, [1 - Lot 26

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BECKFORD (William). VATHEK. London, Clarke, Mount Street, [1 - Lot 26
BECKFORD (William). VATHEK. London, Clarke, Mount Street, [1815]. Large 8vo (binding: 240 × 155 mm), Empire green Russian leather, covers decorated with a frame of two gilt fillets with gilt volutes at the corners, spine with broad flat raised bands decorated with a gilt scroll, gilt title, gilt filleted edges, inner border decorated with a triple gilt fillet, gilt edges (contemporary binding). Heavy foxing on the frontispiece, title page, and last blank leaf; very scattered foxing throughout the rest of the volume; a slight dent on the front cover; leather on the back cover has been reattached. THIRD EDITION IN FRENCH, known as the “definitive” edition—the last to be corrected and expanded with a note by the author—of this MASTERPIECE of BRITISH GOTHIC LITERATURE. It contains an aquatint-engraved FRONTISPICE on China paper, pasted in by Isaac Taylor after a drawing by Isaac Taylor Jr., and the famous title VIGNETTE depicting Vathek’s radiant eye surmounted by a turban. A copy printed on BEAUTIFUL VELLUM PAPER, watermarked “1814,” with generous margins, in a decorated binding of the period.
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