cloth, dust jacket
2008 · London
by Millington, Jon
London: The Beckford Soceity, 2008. cloth, dust jacket. Beckford, William. 6 x 9 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 414 pages. First edition. William Beckford (1760-1844) is remembered as the author of Vathek and the creator of one of the most significant buildings of the Gothic Revival, Fonthill Abbey. He was a man of many facets: art collector, bibliophile, traveller, builder, and landscape gardener. Sensing his destiny, just before his coming of age celebrations, Beckford wrote, "I fear I shall never be half so sapient, not good for anything in this world, but composing airs, building towers, forming gardens, collecting old Japan, and writing a journey to (truncated)