Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha. By the Author of "Vathek"

£250 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Chapman and Hodgkin describe this work as being “by far the best book that Beckford wrote”. The narrative was based on a travel journal Beckford kept in 1794. A very good copy, boards and spine a little rubbed and marked, frontispiece lightly spotted. Book plate of Sir Robert Comyn to front pastedown. A Bibliography of William Beckford , Chapman and Hodgkin, 9 (i).

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