Recollections Of an Excursion To the Monasteries Of Alcobaca and Batalha

London: Richard Bentley, 1835. SCARCE. INSCRIBED BY Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton and William Beckford's son-in-law, in the year of publication at half-title page -"To Robert Browne Esq., from the Dk. of Hamilton, June 27th, 1835". Hamilton was married to Beckford's daughter Susan. William Beckford ( 1760-1844), English author and art collector, best known for his Gothic… Read more about this item

London: Richard Bentley, 1835. Hardcover. Very Good +. First edition, 8vo, green pebbled cloth, red leather label spine, and uncommonly seen thus. 228 pages, leaves somewhat darkened, more so at frontispiece and title. Contemporary inscription in Spanish ffe. Solid copy.

Foyles green label to pasteboard. Very good unmarked copy with original dustcover. Price clipped; endpapers lightly tanned and spine with shelfwear.

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835. Book. Very Good. Blindstamped Cloth. 1st American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 188 pages including notes, 16 pages of advertising for books published by Carey, Lea & Blanchard including Shelley's Frankenstein, Cooper's The Headsman, and Thomas Moore's The History of Ireland among other prominent writers. Page one has a decipherable note… Read more about this item

London: Richard Bentley, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Pp. xi, 228. Half blue calf over marbled boards, red leather spine label in gilt, gilt stamped designs to compartments, blind stamped rolls, and gilt straight and dotted lines to raised bands, corners of boards rubbed and a few scuffs to the leather. Marbled endpapers and edges, light… Read more about this item

London: Richard Bentley New Burlington Street, 1835. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. The first edition of William Beckford's travel letters written during his excursion to the monasteries of Alcobaca and Batalha in 1794. The first edition of this work. Bound without the half-title. Published as 'by the author of 'Vathek'',… Read more about this item

Centaur Press / Open Gate Press, Lonodn, 2006,. Very Good. 2006. Soft cover. 0900001526 paperback, 8vo, xxxii,88pp, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good condition. ISBN: 0900001526 .

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.