Item #77406 A uniformly bound collection of works by or relating to Horace Walpole, comprising seven titles in 28 octavo volumes. Horace WALPOLE.
A uniformly bound collection of works by or relating to Horace Walpole, comprising seven titles in 28 octavo volumes
A uniformly bound collection of works by or relating to Horace Walpole, comprising seven titles in 28 octavo volumes

A uniformly bound collection of works by or relating to Horace Walpole, comprising seven titles in 28 octavo volumes

Cream vellum with black leather title-labels, all edges gilt (bound by Rivière and Son); boards very slightly bowed; numerous in-text illustrations plus engravings as called for; occasional light foxing (but confined mainly to the inner surfaces of the marbled endpapers, the binder's blanks and the first and last pages in contact with them); some offsetting from the plates; for all intents and purposes, a fine set with the Lionel Lindsay-designed bookplate of [Sir] James McGregor mounted on the pastedown of each volume.

[1] A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland.... Enlarged and continued to the present time, by Thomas Park (5 volumes; London, printed for John Scott, 1806).

[2] Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third.... Edited, with notes, by Sir Denis Le Marchant (4 volumes; London, Richard Bentley, 1845, first edition).

[3] Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second. Edited ... by the late Lord Holland (3 volumes; London, Henry Colburn, 1846-1847, first edition).

[4] Anecdotes of Painting in England, with some Account of the Principal Artists ... A new edition, revised, with additional notes, by Ralph N. Wornum (3 volumes; London, Bohn, 1849).

[5] Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his Contemporaries ... Edited by Eliot Warburton (2 volumes; London, Henry Colburn, 1851, first edition).

[6] The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. Edited by Peter Cunningham (9 volumes; London, Richard Bentley, 1857-59, first edition).

[7] Journal of the Reign of King George the Third, from the year 1771 to 1783.... Edited, with notes, by Dr Doran (2 volumes; London, Richard Bentley, 1859, first edition). Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth Earl of Orford, English author, letter-writer, politician, collector, architectural innovator ... but 'above all, a wit, a virtuoso, and a man of quality' ('Dictionary of National Biography'). [28 items].

Item #77406

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