A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole [engraved title] ... Mr. George Robins is honoured ... to sell the valuable contents of Strawberry Hill, and it may fearlessly be proclaimed as the most distinguished gem that has ever adorned the annals of auctions ... fixed for Monday, the 25th day of April, 1842
by [Walpole, Horace]
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Smith and Robins, Printers, King Street, Long Acre, 1842. First edition, 4to, pp. xxiv, 250; mounted lithographic frontispiece portrait of Walpole by G. Madeley after Eckhardt; woodcut title, vignettes in the text; original cloth-backed blue pictorial wrappers creased and worn; spine ends chipped, good and sound. Tipped in at the front is a printed slip from W. Forster, "of No. 4 Lower James Street, Golden Square" who "begs leave to inform the Nobility and Gentry that, by the kind permission of Mr. George Robbins, he will attend at Strawberry Hill during the whole of the View and Sale, and will be happy to undertake the commissions of those who may be kind enough to favour him with their commands." Part of the preface is a description of Strawberry Hill by W. Harrison Ainsworth. At the end (p. 250) of the volume is an admission that this present edition carries inaccuracies, all of which will be rectified in the second edition.
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- Rulon-Miller Books (US)
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- Title
- A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole [engraved title] ... Mr. George Robins is honoured ... to sell the valuable contents of Strawberry Hill, and it may fearlessly be proclaimed as the most distinguished gem that has ever adorned the annals of auctions ... fixed for Monday, the 25th day of April, 1842
- Author
- [Walpole, Horace]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Smith and Robins, Printers, King Street, Long Acre
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1842
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