• Publication: VathekPublication Record # 850226
• Author: uncredited
• Date: 1815-00-00
• Publisher: Clarke
• Price:
  10/6^?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: 218
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes: The title page does not credit an author. However, the introduction is signed. Beckford's introduction indicates that this is his original French novel from which the 1786 translation was made. Beckford also added the titles of the three Episodes of Vathek, indicating where they should occur within the novel. The text of the episodes is not included in this edition. The caption of the frontispiece is in English. The introduction is not titled. Price from an advertisement for this edition in the 1816 English edition.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 502592142

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• bp •  Vathek (frontispiece) [English] • interior artwork by Isaac Taylor, Jr.
• bp •  Vathek (title page) • interior artwork by uncredited
• bp • Introduction (Vathek) • essay by William Beckford (variant of introduction (Vathek)) [as by W. Beckford]
• 1 • Vathek • [Vathek • 1] • novel by William Beckford [as by uncredited]
• 207 • Notes (Vathek) • essay by uncredited