BECKFORD, William Thomas. Vathek Conte Arabe, Paris: chez Poinçot, 1787, 8°, second edition in French, first issue without the Approbation (title browned and soiled, occasional thumb soiling), contemporary half calf (rebacked) [Chapman & Hodgkin 3B(ii)] Provenance: Earl of Malmesbury; (?) Boyd Alexander (pencil inscriptions at front); Vathek, London: chez Clarke, 1815, 8°, third edition in French, engraved frontispiece and title vignette, errata slip at end (preliminaries heavily dampstained), contemporary diced calf (new spine label, upper joints weak) [Chapman & Hodgkin 3B(iii)] Provenance: Chandos Leigh (with his bookplate and 9 line manuscript poem attributed to him on front free endpaper); and three editions of the same work in English (1815, 1816, 1823). (5)