• Publication: The History of the Caliph VathekPublication Record # 725589
• Author: William Beckford
• Date: 1887-00-00
• Publisher: Cassell & Company
• Pub. Series: Cassell's National Library
• Pub. Series #: 96
• Price:
  -/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 192
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • New edition Probably published in October, as the 44th nominally weekly issue of 1887. Available in paper -/3 and cloth -/6. In the US series this is #97, from contemporary notices if not front/back pages and/or cover. See the series record for more information.
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original covers and endpapers (2 files, probably 2 scans of one book; copy "uiuo" recommended): -- front cover (image 1) -- title page: London [etc], 1887 -- Introduction, p[5]-12, closes "H. M." The editor is named "Professor Henry Morley" on the front cover and "Henry Morley, LL.D." on both pages "Cassell's National Library" that describe and list the series: • facing title page, lists Second Year Volumes to date #53 to 96 • facing back cover, lists the First Year Volumes #1 to 52
  • Library records BL and OCLC, below, evidently conflate conflate this publication with an 1883-dated omnibus, illustrated, critical edition. Compare BL 000246508 and OCLC 819333260.
  • OCLC 34615647 reports a 1901 reprint in Cassell's National Library, New Series.
• External IDs:
  • BL: 000246509
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 557681057

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 5 • Introduction (The History of the Caliph Vathek) • essay by Henry Morley
• 13 • The History of the Caliph Vathek • [Vathek • 1] • (1881) • novel by William Beckford (trans. of Vathek 1786)