NMLP P-037763 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Vathek

William Beckford · J. Johnson, London (Samuel Henley's English text) · 1786

The true first appeared anonymously as An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript: with Notes Critical and Explanatory (London: printed for J. Johnson, 1786) — the name Vathek appears nowhere on the title page, and the text purports to be translated from an Arabic manuscript with no mention of Beckford

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-037763 for "Vathek" by William Beckford (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037763, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).