Leonora

Description

Title: Leonora
Alternative Title: Lenore. English
Creator: Bürger, Gottfried August, 1747-1794
Contributor: Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808, artist.
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker.
Birrell, A., active 1770-1820, printmaker.
Harding, E. 1755-1840, , printmaker.
Published / Created: 1796.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed by T. Bensley for J. Edwards and E. and S. Harding, Pall-Mall
Description: Parallel German and English texts on opposite pages.
Engravings by Bartolozzi, Harding and Birrell.
LWL 49 2349: Engraved view of Castle of Otranto by Barlow pasted down on p. [7].
LWL 49 2349: Proof copies of plates with only nos. 1 and 4 numbered.
LWL 49 2349: Walpole's press mark: C 19. Moved from Round Tower to Glass Closet at Strawberry Hill.
Engravings by Bartolozzi, Harding, and Birrell.
Black morocco, with Horace Walpole's seal as Lord Orford stamped on sides. No bookplate and not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Bookplate of the Earl of Cromer, 1912.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day vi, lot 77, to H.G. Bohn for William Beckford, £2.2.0; Sotheby's 5 July 1882 (Beckford Sale, Part 1), lot 1387, to Sotheran, £3.3.0; Christie's, 21 July 1884, lot 154; label of the George T. Juckes Co., Book Merchants. Maggs, September 1944, to W.S. Lewis, £31.10.0.
Extent: [8], 35, [1] p., [5] leaves of plates : 43 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English