An Arabian tale
Subtitle: from an unpublished manuscript: with notes critical and explanatory
Publisher: Printed for J. Johnson
Published: 1786
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Other titles: History of the caliph Vathek.; Caliph Vathek.
Notes: Manuscript note on fly-leaf: This is the very rare first issue of the first edition, with page 48 wrongly numbered 84.

Caption and running title: The history of the caliph Vathek.

Spine title: Caliph Vathek.

Later editions appeared under the titles Vathek, and The history of the caliph Vathek.

Large paper. Cf. Guy Chapman. A Bibliography of William Beckford of Fonthill. 1930. p. 22.