Beckford (William).- Jackson (James Grey) An Account of the Empire of Marocco, and the Districts of Suse and Tafilelt, second edition, half-title, stipple-engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved maps, one folding and with route supplied by hand in red, 12 aquatint plates, 3 hand-coloured or partly so, 6 folding, frontispiece lightly offset onto title, occasional spotting, William Beckford's copy with 3-line note in pencil to front free endpaper, contemporary half red straight-grain morocco with typical Beckford L-shaped corner-pieces with family crests in gilt, spine gilt in compartments with title and alternating cinquefoil & cross patonce ornaments, t.e.g., others uncut, rubbed and marked, slightly scuffed, spine faded, [cf. Abbey, Travel 296, first edition of 1809], 4to, for the Author by W.Bulmer & Co., 1811.

⁂ Expanded second edition of this account of the geography, natural history, religion, and languages of Morocco, with particular details of trade with Timbuctoo and parts of Sudan. William Beckford's note comments on a footnote on p.vii of the Preface: "Interesting viz. the author believes faithful account of an Embassy from Q.Eliz. to Muley Abd El Melk Emp. of Morocco in 1577 - Gent. Mag. Sept. 1810 p.219".

Provenance: William Beckford (1760-1844), novelist, writer and collector, whose library passed to his son-in-law, the 10th Duke of Hamilton, and was sold in the great Hamilton Palace sales of 1882-83. Many of Beckford's books were bound with L-shaped corner-pieces, often stamped with family crests of the Beckford heron's head and Hamilton oak tree with Latimer arms. The gilt cinquefoil and cross patonce on the spine are from his mother's Hamilton arms and the first Lord Latimer respectively.

Hamilton Palace sale (1882) Part II lot 1090 (Bain £1). Bought Sotheby's 1973 £150.