![]() Further books and manuscripts from the Rosebery family collection, housed in Barnbougle Castle in Scotland, were sold at auction in 2009. The Rosebery family has a long association with Beckford, bibliographically, the first Lord Rosebery buying prodigiously from the auction of Beckford's library at the Hamilton Palace sales in the 1880s. This copy is from the library of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, with his bookplate and Epsom library bookstamp - many of the books from "The Durdans" were sold at auction in 1933, including eighty-six Beckford titles, which is presumably when this book came onto the market. It was also said to have had a significant influence on various aspects of his famous, constantly evolving designs for Fonthill Abbey. Although he found Alcobaça gloomy and "Saxon", Batalha intrigued and enchanted him. Major Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE FRGS FRSGS (15 February 1874 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. Beckford first travelled to Portugal in 1787, mostly staying in the environs of Lisbon and Sintra he returned in 1793, taking up residence in a coastal villa overlooking the Tagus estuary, from where he planned this excursion to the nearby monasteries. ![]() Later full tan morocco gilt, by Riviere.Īn attractive association copy of Vathek author William Beckford's memoir of his travels in Portugal. ![]() Engraved mezzotint portrait frontispiece, half-title, xi, 228pp. ![]()
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