A Catalogue of Horace Walpole's Library.; With 'Horace Walpole's Library' by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969. First edition. Fine in price-clipped, very good dust jackets. Cloth. Three volumes, large octavo.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969. First edition. Fine in price-clipped, very good dust jackets. Cloth. Three volumes, large octavo.
London: G.G. and J. Robinson, and J. Edwards, 1798. First collected edition of Walpole's (1717-1797) works, superintended by Mary Berry (1763-1852), Walpole's young protégé. He described Mary and her sister Amelia as "the best informed and the most perfect creatures I ever saw at their age" and bequeathed them his.....
New York: Grolier Club, 1936. First edition, one of 450 copies, printed for the members by Edmund Burke Thompson at Hawthorne House, Windham, Connecticut. Number 11 in the club's Miscellaneous Antiquities series, A fine copy, with publisher’s note laid in. Apple green cloth over tan patterned boards, gilt spine. Octavo.....
[London:]: Printed at The Chiswick Press for Constable and Company and Houghton Mifflin, 1923. Deluxe edition, limited to 650 copies. Photogravure frontispiece, and eleven other plates in heliotype or photogravure, including tipped in facsimile plates. Spine a trifle faded, but a very good, clean copy. Original tan calf with gilt.....
London: Printed by W. Richardson and S. Clark…, 1763. First octavo edition, following a quarto edition the previous year. A little light dampstaining at bottom margin, a little light foxing. A very good, uncut copy. Armorial bookplate of George Cavendish, old ink signature (“Marcus Gage”) on title-page, old ink notations.....