The valuable library of books, in Fonthill Abbey : a catalogue of the magnificent, rare, and valuable library, (of 20,000 volumes) illustrated, in many instances, with two and three sets of proof and other plates; generally of the most choice editions; selected with great care, and utmost liberality, during the last forty years; also, of the books of prints, galleries of art, curious missals and manuscripts, the Persian and Chinese drawings, &c. &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Phillips, at the abbey ..
An 1823 auction catalogue published in London by Mr. Phillips, offering the library of about 20,000 volumes from William Beckford's Fonthill Abbey for sale to collectors and booksellers. The front cover is a dense diamond-lattice border framing a Gothic abbey tower in an pointed oval, with coat-of-arms roundels and a bookplate-style label at the foot; the pasted-in ex libris pages show a heraldic shield with a crest and a smaller armorial stamp, a designer might borrow the lattice and pointed-arch framing for period-style frames.
