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BECKFORD, William Thomas -- The Valuable Library of Books in Fonthill Abbey, Fonthill: Phillips, 9 September-29 October 1823, 8°, engraved frontispiece (lacking pp. 353-54, supplied in facsimile), contemporary boards (upper cover detached) [Lugt 10510]; The Hamilton Palace Libraries. Catalogue [First to Third Portion only of four], London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 30 June 1882-14 July 1883, 3 parts in one vol., 8° (some spotting, final leaves damaged and repaired), modern buckram -- MORRISON, Alfred. The Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents formed by .... second series, [n.p.], for private circulation, 1893-96, 3 vols., 8°, original hessian-backed boards (slightly soiled and rubbed) -- CHAPMAN, Guy (editor) The Travel Diaries of William Beckford of Fonthill, Cambridge for Constable & Houghton Mifflin, 1928, 2 vols., 8°, limited to 1000 copies, plates (spotting to title of vol. I), original cloth; and 65 others, including many biographical and critical works on Beckford. (72)