William Beckford of Fonthill : writer, traveller, collector, caliph, 1760-1844, a brief narrative and catalogue of an exhibition to mark the two hundredth anniversary of Beckford's birth / by Howard B. Gotlieb ; with the previously unpublished journal kept by William Beckford in 1794 ; edited by Boyd Alexander.

Main entry:

Yale University. Library, corporate author.

Title & Author:

Publication:

New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Library, 1960.

Description:

100 pages : illustrations, portrait, facs. ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliography.
William Beckford, Sr., Lord Mayor of London -- Life and works of William Beckford -- Books attributed to William Beckford -- Beckford as the Caliph of Fonthill Abbey -- Beckford the collector -- Books about William Beckford -- Appendices.
Also issued online.

Subject:

Beckford, William, 1760-1844 Bibliography Exhibitions.
Beckford, William, 1760-1844.
Authors, English Homes and haunts England Wiltshire Exhibitions.
Authors, English 18th century Biography Exhibitions.
Écrivains anglais 18e siècle Biographies Expositions.
Authors, English.
Authors, English Homes and haunts.
Biography.
Intellectual life.
Essays.
Reisverhalen.
Engels.
Wiltshire (England) Intellectual life Exhibitions.
Wiltshire (England) Biography Exhibitions.
Wiltshire (Angleterre) Vie intellectuelle Expositions.
Wiltshire (Angleterre) Biographies Expositions.
England Wiltshire.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Bibliographies.
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Gotlieb, Howard B.
Alexander, Boyd, 1913-
Beckford, William, 1760-1844. Beckford's 1794 journal.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 115794
Call No.: ID EXHX; ID:85-B19217
Status: Available

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