The Minerva Library.

1. CHARLES DARWIN'S JOURNAL during a Voyage in the Beagle.'

2. THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS.

3. BORROW'S BIBLE IN SPAIN. 4. EMERSON'S PROSE WORKS.

5. GALTON'S TROPICAL SOUTH AFRICA. 6. MANZONI'S THE BETROTHED LOVERS. 7. GOETHE'S FAUST (Complete). Bayard Taylor. 8. WALLACE'S TRAVELS ON THE AMAZON. 9. DEAN STANLEY'S life of dr. ARNOLD. 10. POE'S TALES.

11. COMEDIES BY MOLIÈRE.

12. FORSTER'S LIFE OF GOLDSMITH.
13. LANE'S MODERN EGYPTIANS.
14. TORRENS' LIFE OF MELBOURNE.
15. THACKERAY'S VANITY FAIR.

16. BARTH'S TRAVELS IN AFRICA.
17. VICTOR HUGO: SELECT POEMS, &c.
18. DARWIN'S CORAL REEFS, &c.

19. LOCKHART'S LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS.
20. BARTH'S TRAVELS IN AFRICA (II.).
21. LYRA ELEGANTIARUM. Locker-Lampson.
22. CARLYLE'S SARTOR RESARTUS, &c.
23. LIFE AND LETTERS OF FRANKLIN.
24. BECKFORD'S VATHEK, AND TRAVELS.
25. MACAULAY'S HISTORICAL AND
LITERARY ESSAYS.

London: WARD, LOCK & CO.

Edited by G. T. BETTANY, M.A., B.Sc.

THE HISTORY OF THE CALIPH

VATHEK;

AND

EUROPEAN TRAVELS.

BY

WILLIAM BECKFORD.

WITH A PORTRAIT, FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS, AND

BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION.

WARD, LOCK AND CO.,
LONDON, NEW YORK, AND MELBOURNE.

1891.