THE STRAWBERRY HILL SET: Horace Walpole and His Circle
by Brian Fothergill
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0571106099
- ISBN 13
- 9780571106097
- Seller
-
West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
This is a pristine first edition of The Strawberry Hill Set, Horace Walpole and His Circle, written in 1983 by the British biographer Brian Fothergill. It is a fascinating and entertaining book about the people who frequented Strawberry Hill, the fabulous London villa of Horace Walpole, which is now a museum.
Walpole, the Earl of Orford, was a politician, writer, collector and art historian who had a wide variety of amusing friends. His circle included the English poet Thomas Gray, the singer and entertainer Kitty Clive, King George's mistress Henrietta Howard, and numerous politicians, artists, architects and socialites. The goings-on at Strawberry Hill were legendary.
277 pages, with photographs.
This copy does not appear to have been read, or even opened. Its only flaw is that the owner wrote his initial on the inside front cover.
Other than that, it's in mint condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Louise Aird (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1427
- Title
- THE STRAWBERRY HILL SET: Horace Walpole and His Circle
- Author
- Brian Fothergill
- Format/Binding
- Perfect
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0571106099
- ISBN 13
- 9780571106097
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- This edition first published
- 1983
- Pages
- 277
- Keywords
- Thomas Gray, Kitty Clive, Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk
- Bookseller catalogs
- British Society; Biography, Autobiography, True Stories;
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...