• Publication: Vathek with The Episodes of VathekPublication Record # 224653
• Author: William Beckford
• Date: 1929-00-00
• Publisher: Constable & Co. Ltd.
• Price:
  31/6^?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: xv+176+vii+162
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Webpages: archive.org-1, archive.org-2
• Notes: In a 2-volume set. 1,000 copies. Incorporates The Episodes of Vathek where the stories would occur within the novel.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 252050786
  • Reginald-1: 01024

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• ix • Preface (Vathek with The Episodes of Vathek) [English] • essay by Guy Chapman
• xi • Introduction (Vathek with The Episodes of Vathek) [English] • essay by Guy Chapman
• 5 • Vathek with The Episodes of Vathek • [Vathek] • novel by William Beckford
• 159 • Textual Notes (Vathek with The Episodes of Vathek) [English] • essay by Guy Chapman
• 160 • Henley's Introduction to the (English) Edition of 1786 [English] • essay by Samuel Henley (variant of Introduction (An Arabian Tale) 1786) [as by Henley]
• 161 • Foreword to the Lausanne Edition of Vathek 1787 • essay by uncredited (variant of Avis (Vathek) 1787)
• 161 • Preface to the London Edition 1815 • essay by William Beckford (variant of introduction (Vathek) 1815)
• 162 • Draft "Avertissement pour l'édition de Vathek avec les épisodes" • essay by uncredited