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William Thomas Beckford (29 September 1760 – 2 May 1844) was a British writer and politician. He was reputed at one stage to be England's richest commoner. He was the son of William Beckford and Maria Hamilton, daughter of the Hon. George Hamilton, and he served as a member of parliament for Wells in 1784–1790 and Hindon in 1790–1795 and 1806–1820. Beckford is best known for writing the 1786 Gothic novel Vathek, for building Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire and Beckford's Tower in Bath, and for his extensive art collection. (From Wikipedia) More about William Beckford:
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Filed under: Beckford, William, 1760-1844 -- Library -- Catalogs![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) The Hamilton Palace Libraries: Catalogue of the Beckford Library Removed From Hamilton Palace (4 portions; London: Dryden press, J. Davy and Sons, 1882-1883)
Filed under: Beckford, William, 1760-1844 -- Travel -- EuropeFiled under: Beckford, William, 1760-1844 -- Travel -- Portugal- Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha (London: R. Bentley, 1835), by William Beckford
11 additional books about William Beckford in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) La jeunesse de William Beckford et la genèse de son "Vathek". (Les Presses universitaires de France, 1928), by Marcel May and William Beckford (page images at HathiTrust)- The life and letters of William Beckford of Fonthill (Duffield, 1910), by Lewis Melville and William Beckford (page images at HathiTrust)
- Recollections of the late William Beckford, of Fonthill, Wilts; and Lansdown, Bath ... ([n.p.], 1893), by Lansdown and Charlotte Lansdown (page images at HathiTrust)
- The life and letters of William Beckford, of Fonthill ... (W. Heinemann, 1910), by Lewis Saul Benjamin and James Storer (page images at HathiTrust)
- The life and letters of William Beckford of Fonthill (Duffield, 1910), by Lewis Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Beckford family : reminiscences of Fonthill Abbey and Lansdown Tower ([s.n.], 1887), by William Henry Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)
- Memoirs of extraordinary painters (London : William Clarke, New-Bond-Street, 1824., 1824), by William Beckford (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, Hope und Morier als Vertreter des orientalischen Romans (K. Zeidler], 1908), by Karl Zeidler (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Beckford family. Reminiscences of Fonthill Abbey and Lansdown Tower. (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., ltd.; [etc., etc.], 1898), by William Henry Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)
- Catalogue of the magnifcent effects at Fonthill ([Mr. Christie], 1822), by James Christie (page images at HathiTrust)
- Recollections of the late William Beckford: of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath, by Henry Venn Lansdown, ed. by Charlotte Lansdown (Gutenberg ebook)
Books by William Beckford: - Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents, in a Series of Letters From Various Parts of Europe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: The Episodes of Vathek (in English and French; London: S. Swift and Co., 1912), trans. by Frank T. Marzials, contrib. by Lewis Melville (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: The History of the Caliph Vathek (1887 Cassell edition) (Gutenberg text)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha (London: R. Bentley, 1835)
Additional books by William Beckford in the extended shelves:- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Alcobaça e Batalha : recordações de uma excursão (s.n.], 1914) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Beckford's 1794 journal (Yale University Library, 1960), also by Boyd Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Biographical memoirs of extraordinary painters (R. Bentley, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Biographical memoirs of extraordinary painters ... (J. Robson, 1780) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Biographical memoirs of extraordinary painters: exhibiting not only sketches of their principal works and professional characters; but a variety of romantic adventures and original anecdotes ... (J. Robson, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: A catalogue of the costly and interesting effects of Fonthill Abbey. ([London, 1823) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: City petitions, addresses, and remonstrances, &c. &c. &c. commencing in the year M.DCC.LXIX and including the last petition for the burial of the Right Hon'ble the Earl of Chatham in St. Paul's Cathedral, with His Majesty's answers. Also Mr. Alderman Beckford's speech to the king on the twenty-third of May, 1770. (Printed for David Steel ..., 1778), also by Great Britain. Sovereign (1760-1820 : George III) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: A côrte de rainha D. Maria I (Tavares Cardoso & irmao, 1901) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: The drift of romanticism : Shelburne essays. Eighth series (Houghton Mifflin company, 1913), also by Paul Elmer More, John Henry Newman, Walter Pater, William Sharp, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, and Thomas Henry Huxley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: The episodes of Vathek (S. Swift, 1912), also by Lewis Melville and Frank T. Marzials (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: The episodes of Vathek (Small, Maynard, 1922), also by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Frank Thomas Marziak (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: The episodes of Vathek: (Chapman & Dodd, 1922), also by Lewis Melville and Frank Thomas Marzials (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: The history of the caliph Vathek (J. Pott, 1900), also by Samuel Henley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: The history of the Caliph Vathek. (S. Low, Son, and Marston, 1868), also by Samuel Henley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: The history of the Caliph Vathek (J.C. Nimmo and Bain;, 1883), also by Samuel Johnson, Alfred Holst Tourrier, and Benjamin-Auguste-Louis Damman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: The history of the caliph Vathek (W.L. Allison, 1868), also by Samuel Henley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: The history of the Caliph Vathek (J. C. Nimmo and Bain, 1883), also by A. H. Tourrier, Samuel Johnson, and Benjamin Louis Auguste Damman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: The History of the Caliph Vathek / by William Beckford. (Cassell & Company, 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: The history of the Caliph Vathek / by William Beckford. (Cassell, 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: The history of the Caliph Vathek : and European travels (H. Frowde, 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: The history of the Caliph Vathek. Reprinted verbatim from 1st ed. (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1888), also by Samuel Henley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Italy, Spain, and Portugal, with an excursion to the monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha. (Wiley and Putnam, 1845) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Italy, Spain, and Portugal : with an excursion to the monasteries of Alcobaca and Batalha. (R. Bentley, 1840), also by Richard Bentley (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Italy, with sketches of Spain and Portugal (Baudry's European Library, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Italy: with sketches of Spain and Portugal (R. Bentley, 1835) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal. (Richard Bentley, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Italy: with sketches of Spain and Portugal. (Key & Biddle, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal. (R. Bentley, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal (Gutenberg ebook)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: La jeunesse de William Beckford et la genèse de son "Vathek". (Les Presses universitaires de France, 1928), also by Marcel May (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Le Vathek de Beckford (Adolphe Labitte, 1876), also by Stéphane Mallarmé (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Library companion (Printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, 1824), also by Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Charles Lewis, Robert J. Gemmett, and Triphook & Lepard Harding (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: The life and letters of William Beckford of Fonthill (Duffield, 1910), also by Lewis Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: L'Italie et l'Angleterre, chacune dans un des ses enfans. (Chez Clarke, 1802) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Memoirs of extraordinary painters (London : William Clarke, New-Bond-Street, 1824., 1824) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: The pictures and miniatures at Fonthill Abbey : catalogue of this well-selected and valuable collection of gallery and cabinet paintings by ancient and modern masters ... : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Phillips at the Abbey on Friday, the 10th of October, and following day, and on Tuesday & Wednesday, October 14 and 15, 1823 ... ([London] : [Mr. Phillips], [1823], 1823), also by Mr Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Recollections of an excursion to the monasteries of Alcobaca and Balatha (Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Recollections of an excursion to the monasteries of Alcobac̜a and Batalha (Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale, also by Samuel Johnson and Horace Walpole, ed. by Ernest Rhys (Gutenberg ebook)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Sketches of Italy (C. Jugel, 1841), also by Mrs. Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Tableavx sacrez des figures mystiques du tres-auguste sacrifice et sacrement de l'Eucharistie (Chez Laurens Sonnius ..., 1601), also by Louis Richeome, Léonard Gaultier, Karel van Mallery, and Thomas de Leu (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: The travel-diaries of William Beckford of Fonthill (Printed at the University press of Constable and company, limited & Houghton Mifflin company, 1928), also by Guy Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek (P. Allan & co., 1923), also by Samuel Henley and John Gilbert Lockhart (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek (W. Clarke, 1823) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek (John Day, 1928), also by Mahlon Blaine and Ben Ray Redman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek: (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek (Perrin, 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek (Printed for W. Clarke, New Bond street, 1816) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek. (Chez Clarke, 1815) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek. (Sampson Low, Marston, 1892), also by Samuel Henley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek (Greening;, 1921), also by Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek (Small, Maynard, 1924), also by R. Brimley Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek: (Chapman & Dodd, 1922), also by R. Brimley Johnson and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek. (Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1873), also by Samuel Henley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek (Bentley, 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek (Small, Maynard, 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek (in French) (Gutenberg ebook)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek : an Arabian tale (Lawrence & Bullen, 1893), also by Richard Garnett and Samuel Henley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek : an Arabian tale (Henry Carey Baird, 1854), also by William North (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek, an Arabian tale. (Gibbings;, 1900), also by Herbert Nye, Richard Garnett, and Samuel Henley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek; An Arabian Tale, contrib. by William North (Gutenberg ebook)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek : an Arabian tale ; with a memoir of the author and notes critical and explanatory. ([s.n.], 1854), also by Samuel Henley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek; an Arabian tale. With notes, critical and biographical. (J.B. Alden, 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek; an Arabian tale. With notes, critical and explanatory. (R. Bentley, 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek: an Arabian tale, with notes, critical and explanatory. (J. Miller, 1872) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek : an oriental tale (Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek, conte arabe. (Poinçot, 1787) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek; eine arabische Erzählung. (C. Enobloch, 1842) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: Vathek, with the Episodes of Vathek (Printed at the University press, for Constable and company limited & Houghton Mifflin company, 1929), also by Guy Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844: William Beckford of Fonthill: writer, traveller, collector, caliph, 1760-1844 (New Haven, 1960), also by Yale University Library and Howard B. Gotlieb (page images at HathiTrust)
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