Caliph Of Fonthill

London : Werner Laurie , 1956 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Unnamed. An excellent first edition of this illustrated biography of the eccentric novelist William Beckford by H. A. N. Brockman. The first edition of this exciting work by H. A. N. Brockman. Concerning the life and environment of the eccentric novelist William… Read more about this item

Werner Laurie,, [1956]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 12 plates, 4 illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps in red and black; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The work includes a select bibliography. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

London: Werner Laurie, (1956), 1956. First edition. 8vo; 219 pp.; map endpapers and thirteen illustrations from photographs and drawings; bibliography. A good copy or better in original grey cloth, lacking the dust jacket. A biography of the legendary writer, aesthete and collector focusing on his residences. With an introduction by Nikolaus Pevsner..

Werner Laurie, 1956. Book. Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a tightly bound copy but with foxing to both book and pictorial dust jacket and therefore good only. Map to endpapers, b&w plates, xvi + 219pp.

London: Werner Laurie, 1956. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 219pp., frontis., b/w plates, ep maps, bibliog., index, The Story of Thomas Beckford & his grand folly, the Abbey at Fonthill. Nice copy in a slightly worn dust jacket

hardcover. B/w illus., 218pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w.; d.w. tattered. London: Werner Laurie, (1956). Good.<br/><br/>