An act for sale of divers lands and tenements in Twickenham ...

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Title: An act for sale of divers lands and tenements in Twickenham ...
Creator: Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc. 1727-1760
Published / Created: [1749?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Caption title.
With docket title on p. [8].
The private act necessary before Horace Walpole could buy Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 22 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
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"An act for sale of divers lands and tenements in Twickenham ..." mounted and bound to 56 cm.
With note (in Thomas Kirgate's hand?) about a hearing, 30 May 1749, below docket title on page [8].
Provenance: Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent: 7, [1] pages ; 31 cm
Language: English

Resource Type: text
Subjects: Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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