Recollections of an excursion to the monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha.

by the author of “Vathek.” by William Beckford

$500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Publisher in Ordinary to His Majesty. 1835. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, 1 , 228; engraved frontispiece portrait; original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; label with a small chip out. last ten leaves with dampstain at the top, some soiling and wear at the extremities, but otherwise, a very good copy, uncut and largely unopened. This celebrated book was expanded, as Beckford's prefatory

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