The History of the Caliph Vathek
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Overview:
- Title: The History of the Caliph Vathek
- Author: William Beckford
- Year: 1887
- Publisher: Cassell & Company
- Price: -/6
- Pages: 192
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The History of the Caliph Vathek
- Notes:
- New edition Probably published in October, as the 44th nominally weekly issue of 1887. Available in paper -/3 and cloth -/6. In the US series this is #97, from contemporary notices if not front/back pages and/or cover. See the series record for more information.
- HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original covers and endpapers (2 files, probably 2 scans of one book; copy "uiuo" recommended): -- front cover (image 1) -- title page: London [etc], 1887 -- Introduction, p[5]-12, closes "H. M." The editor is named "Professor Henry Morley" on the front cover and "Henry Morley, LL.D." on both pages "Cassell's National Library" that describe and list the series: • facing title page, lists Second Year Volumes to date #53 to 96 • facing back cover, lists the First Year Volumes #1 to 52
- Library records BL and OCLC, below, evidently conflate conflate this publication with an 1883-dated omnibus, illustrated, critical edition. Compare {{BL|000246508}} and {{OCLC|819333260}}.
- {{OCLC|34615647}} reports a 1901 reprint in Cassell's National Library, New Series.