William Beckford and the New Millennium
New York: AMS Press, Inc., 2004. Hardcover. Evergreen cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and decoration. xiv, 313 pp. with 14 bw figures. NF but art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks. Item #159376
ISBN: 9780404635473
Includes bibliographical references and index. William Thomas Beckford (1 October 1760 – 2 May 1844) was an English novelist, a profligate and consummately knowledgeable art collector and patron of works of decorative art, a critic, travel writer and sometime politician, reputed at one stage in his life to be the richest commoner in England. He is remembered as the author of the Gothic novel Vathek, the builder of the remarkable lost Fonthill Abbey and Lansdown Tower ("Beckford's Tower"), Bath, and especially for his art collection.
OCLC: 237995177
Price: $50.00