This ticket, on being delivered to the housekeeper, will admit Four Persons, and no more, ... to see Strawberry-Hill

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Title: This ticket, on being delivered to the housekeeper, will admit Four Persons, and no more, ... to see Strawberry-Hill
Alternative Title: Ticket to view Strawberry Hill. 1774
Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Published / Created: [1774]
Publication Place: Twickenham, England
Publisher: Strawberry Hill Press
Description: Title from first line of text.
Title in Hazen: This ticket to view Strawberry Hill, 1774.
Mounted on page 7 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.
Signed: Horace Walpole. Date supplied in manuscript: Thursday, Aug. 4th.
Mounted, bound to 56 cm. For further information, consult library staff.
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: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 6.1 x 8.3 cm
Language: English

Genre: Admission tickets
Resource Type: text
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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