The Travel-Diaries of William Beckford of Fonthill.

Cambridge: Constable & Company/Houghton Mifflin, 1928. First edition. lxii + 347 pp w/appendix & xvii +373 pp w/notes. Two volumes, both fine in very good plus dust jackets with a chip to the middle of the spine on volume one. T.e.g. Frontispieces and nine plates. One of 1000 copies. Edited with a biographical Introduction by Guy Chapman. Beckford’s DREAMS, WAKING THOUGHTS AND INCIDENTS, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF EUROPE (first published in 1783, but almost entirely suppressed, together with his travel diaries of Spain and Portugal (first published in 1834).