Lot Essay
Of interest for being published just 2 years before Beckford's own oriental tale of Vathek, written in French before being translated and published in English (1786).
Details
[BLANCHET (L'Abbé)] Apologues et Contes Orientaux, Paris: Debure, 1784, 8°, FIRST EDITION, BECKFORD COPY, on large paper, engraved portrait, half title, [4] + lvi + 285pp., contemporary green morocco, triple gilt fillet, flat-backed spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, g.e., with a pencil note to front free endpaper stating :"bought at the Beckford sale 1882," bookplate of Robert, Marquis of Crewe. [Brunet VI, 17363]