Vathek

Overview:

  • Title: Vathek
  • Author: uncredited
  • Year: 1815
  • Publisher: Clarke
  • Price: 10/6
  • Pages: 218
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Vathek
  • Notes: The title page does not credit an author. However, the introduction is signed. Beckford's introduction indicates that this is his original French novel from which the 1786 translation was made. Beckford also added the titles of the three Episodes of Vathek, indicating where they should occur within the novel. The text of the episodes is not included in this edition. The caption of the frontispiece is in English. The introduction is not titled. Price from an advertisement for this edition in the 1816 English edition.