WILLIAM BECKFORD, the author of the following celebrated Eastern tale, was born in 1760, and died in the spring of 1844, at the advanced age of eighty-four years.
Transcribed from the 1887 Cassell & Company edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk THE HISTORY OF THE CALIPH VATHEK INTRODUCTION William Beckford, born in 1759, the year befor...