Horace Walpole's Description of the villa at Strawberry Hill : a facsimile of the copy extra-illustrated for Charles Bedford in the collection of Lord Waldegrave of North Hill
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Type of record: Book
Title: Horace Walpole's Description of the villa at Strawberry Hill : a facsimile of the copy extra-illustrated for Charles Bedford in the collection of Lord Waldegrave of North Hill
Other titles: Description of the villa at Strawberry Hill; Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford, at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex
Classmark: Bedford Collection D423
Creator(s): Walpole, Horace (1717-1797)
Additional creator(s): Barker, Nicolas (Editor); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Roxburghe Club (Issuing body)
Related people: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797; Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Publisher: The Roxburghe Club
Publication city: [London]
Date(s): 2010
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 volume (various pagings)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/776422
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019769043905181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Contains facsimile edition of 1784 edition printed by Thomas Kirgate (ESTC, T64913).
"Bound in Roxburghe style quarter morocco with buckram sides"--Bookseller's catalogue.
Limited edition of 200 copies.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Foreword -- 1. Prints and portraits -- 2. A description of Strawberry Hill -- 3. The prince of cockle shells -- 4. Illustrating A description -- 5. Walpole and the Bedford family -- 6. Aftermath -- 7. Epilogue -- The facsimile [Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole...] -- Biographical appendix: collections and recipients -- The extra-illustrated copies -- Index.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at D423: Contains two loose items: clipping from bookseller's catalogue; MS. note: Ltd. edition 200.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at D423: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HS/84. MS. annotation on title page verso: (A limited edition of 200).
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