A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford, at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex. With an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c
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Type of record: Book
Title: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford, at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex. With an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c
Classmark: Bedford Collection D501
Publisher: Strawberry-Hill: printed by Thomas Kirgate
Publication city: [Twickenham]
Date(s): MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]
Language: English
Size and medium: [2],iv,96p.,plates [some folded]
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729563
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019890966105181
Description
Anonymous. By Horace Walpole.
Variant: with added titlepage printed in black, red and blue.
Bedford Collection copy D501 has black and white engraved frontispiece title page; curiosities added since this book was completed pages [93-94]; more additions [95-96].
Indexed in: ESTC
Indexed in: Walpole,
Indexed in: Hazen. Strawberry Hill,
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection D501: contemporary calf, gold tooled on spine and edge.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection D501: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HSo/5. Eighteenth-century pictorial bookplate on front flyleaf: Mr Sandby St Georges Row Oxford Turnpike Hyde Park [i.e. Paul Sandby (1730/31-1809), artist and founder member of the Royal Academy ]. Eighteenth century MS. inscription on front pastedown: E Libris Samuelis Rose [i.e. possibly Samuel Rose (1767-1804), lawyer and friend of William Cowper??]. MS. inscription on front flyleaf: Lord Orford [i.e. Horace Walpole] left this Book by his will to Paul Sandby Esq, who gave it to me May, 1798.
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