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| Title | The history of the caliph Vathek. Pr. verbatim from 1st ed., with the original prefaces and notes by Henley |
| Author | William Beckford |
| Published | 1868 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
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