Journal of the printing-office at Strawberry Hill near Twickenham in Middlesex : manuscript
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Description
- Title
- Journal of the printing-office at Strawberry Hill near Twickenham in Middlesex : manuscript
- Creator
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
- Contributor
- Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780.
- Published / Created
- 1757-1789.
- Publication Place
- Twickenham, England
- Abstract
-
A journal kept by Horace Walpole that documents the business of running Strawberry Hill Press, his private printing press at his home Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, England. Starting on 25 June 1757 with the erection of the press by William Robinson, the first of several printers hired by Horace Walpole to operate his press, the journal contains a list of the titles published, receipts for payment to the printers and their assistants, the indenture of Joseph Forrester, correspondence between Walpole and his printers about operations and the choice of engravers, receipts for supplies, newspaper clippings announcing the publications from the press, and two vignettes used in the Press's publications. With a medley print by Jacobus Houbraken on front paste-down with portraits of early printers: Joannes Gutenburg, Joannes Faustus, Laurentius Costerus, Aldus Manucius, and Joannes Frobenius which was also the frontispiece to volume 1 of Michael Maittaire's work Annales typographici ab artis inventae origine ad annum MD (Hagae-Comitum: Apud Idssvu, Valillant, MDCCXIX. Also with two prints by Edward Edwards: tFarm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill; and, a portrait of Thomas Kirgate
- Description
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Title from text at head of page 1, in Walpole's hand.
In English with some French. - Provenance
- Bequeathed by Mrs. Damer, with her collection, to Sir Jonathan Wathen Waller.
- Extent
- 1 volume (20, 21 pages) : 24 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 49 2506A
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Medley prints
Clippings (information artifacts) Great Britain
Indentures
Receipts - Material
- illustrations ;
- Subject (Geographic)
- England.
- Subject (Name)
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Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810.
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Subject (Topic)
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Private presses
Printers - Subjects
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Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Private presses > England
Printers
Great Britain
Waller, Jonathan Wathen, 17691-1853 > Ownership
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 1738888
- Object ID (OID)
- 33194322