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A boy who started with a silver spoon in his mouth. The picture shows William Beckford as a boy, and is reproduced from Mr. Lewis Melville's elaborate biography of the author of 'Vathek,' published by Mr. Heinemann. Beckford was born in 1760, and at the age of ten came into possession of a million's worth of property. Mr Melville tells the romantic story of how he got rid of most of it [from the Graphic, Feb. 4, 1911].
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![A boy who started with a silver spoon in his mouth. The picture shows William Beckford as a boy, and is reproduced from Mr. Lewis Melville's elaborate biography of the author of 'Vathek,' published by Mr. Heinemann. Beckford was born in 1760, and at the age of ten came into possession of a million's worth of property. Mr Melville tells the romantic story of how he got rid of most of it [from the Graphic, Feb. 4, 1911].](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1108964&t=b)
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "A boy who started with a silver spoon in his mouth. The picture shows William Beckford as a boy, and is reproduced from Mr. Lewis Melville's elaborate biography of the author of 'Vathek,' published by Mr. Heinemann. Beckford was born in 1760, and at the age of ten came into possession of a million's worth of property. Mr Melville tells the romantic story of how he got rid of most of it [from the Graphic, Feb. 4, 1911]." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1911. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-8f86-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "A boy who started with a silver spoon in his mouth. The picture shows William Beckford as a boy, and is reproduced from Mr. Lewis Melville's elaborate biography of the author of 'Vathek,' published by Mr. Heinemann. Beckford was born in 1760, and at the age of ten came into possession of a million's worth of property. Mr Melville tells the romantic story of how he got rid of most of it [from the Graphic, Feb. 4, 1911]." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 28, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-8f86-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. (1911). A boy who started with a silver spoon in his mouth. The picture shows William Beckford as a boy, and is reproduced from Mr. Lewis Melville's elaborate biography of the author of 'Vathek,' published by Mr. Heinemann. Beckford was born in 1760, and at the age of ten came into possession of a million's worth of property. Mr Melville tells the romantic story of how he got rid of most of it [from the Graphic, Feb. 4, 1911]. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-8f86-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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A boy who started with a silver spoon in his mouth. The picture shows William Beckford as a boy, and is reproduced from Mr. Lewis Melville's elaborate biography of the author of 'Vathek,' published by Mr. Heinemann. Beckford was born in 1760, and at the age of ten came into possession of a million's worth of property. Mr Melville tells the romantic story of how he got rid of most of it [from the Graphic, Feb. 4, 1911]., (1911)
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![A boy who started with a silver spoon in his mouth. The picture shows William Beckford as a boy, and is reproduced from Mr. Lewis Melville's elaborate biography of the author of 'Vathek,' published by Mr. Heinemann. Beckford was born in 1760, and at the age of ten came into possession of a million's worth of property. Mr Melville tells the romantic story of how he got rid of most of it [from the Graphic, Feb. 4, 1911].](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1108964&t=t)