Author (1-Oct-1760 — 2-May-1844)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Boyd Alexander. England's Wealthiest Son: A Study of William Beckford. London: Centaur Press. 1962. 308pp.

H. A. N. Brockman. The Caliph of Fonthill: The Story of William Beckford. London: Werner Laurie. 1956. 209pp.

Guy Chapman; John Hodgkin. A Bibliography of William Beckford of Fonthill. London: Constable & Co.. 1930. 127pp.

Guy Chapman (editor). The Travel-Diaries of William Beckford of Fonthill. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 1928. (2 vols.) 347pp. + 373pp.

Guy Chapman. Beckford. London: Jonathan Cape. 1937. 365pp. Also a second edition in 1957.

Robert J. Gemmett (editor). The Consummate Collector: William Beckford's Letters to His Bookseller. Michael Russell Publishing. 2000. 336pp.

H. B. Gotlieb. 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. With the Previously Unpublished Journal Kept by William Beckford in 1794. New Haven, CT: Yale University Library. 1960. 100pp. Contents 257 entries.

James Lees-Milne. William Beckford. Wiltshire, England: Compton Russell. 1976. 124pp.

Fatma Moussa Mahmoud (editor). William Beckford of Fonthill, 1760-1844: Bicentenary Essays. Cairo, Egypt: Casta Tsoumas and Co.. 1960. 157pp.

Jack Malcolm. William Beckford: An English Fidalgo. AMS Press. 1997. 170pp.

Lewis Melville (pseudonym of Lewis S. Benjamin). The Life and Letters of William Beckford of Fonthill. London: William Heinemann. 1910. 391pp.

Derek E. Ostergard; Philip Hewat-Jaboor. William Beckford, 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent. Yale University Press. 2001. 496pp. Exhibition catalogue, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture (October 2001 to January 2002) and Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (February to April 2002).

André Parreaux. William Beckford, Auteur de Vathek: Etude de la Creation Litteraire. Paris, France: Nizet. 1960. 571pp. Language: French.

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4. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition

6. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.125)

7. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.45)

8. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature (p.31)

9. Who's Who in Lesbian & Gay Writing (p.17)

10. Atlantic: Brief Lives: A Biographical Companion to the Arts (p.40)

11. The Penguin Companion to English Literature (p.40)

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