[Beckford (William)] Vathek, Conte Arabe, first Paris edition, title with woodcut ornament, advertisement leaf at end, a few leaves lightly browned, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt with red roan label, a little rubbed and scuffed, covers very slightly splayed, new endpapers, preserved in modern calf drop-back box, by Trevor Lloyd, spine gilt with ornaments in compartments and red roan label, [cf. Chapman 3(B).ii], 8vo, Paris, Poinçot [&] Chatellerault, P.J.B.Guimbert, 1787.

⁂ Following the unuathorised publication of Vathek in English in London in 1786 Beckford hastily published an edition in the original French in Lausanne in December 1786 (but dated 1787). This was followed by a revised edition in Paris published by Poinçot in 1787.