A description of the villa of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford at Strawberry-Hill, near Twickenham with an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c. - Yale University Library

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Title: A description of the villa of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford at Strawberry-Hill, near Twickenham with an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c.
Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Published / Created: MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]
Publisher: Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate
Description: Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy available as a pdf.
Red morocco by Clarke & Bedford. Bookplate 2 early state, and a copy of the 2d Strawberry Hill fleuron. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Bookplate of Samuel Putnam Avery.
Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy, with copious manuscript additions and corrections, some on added leaves.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day iv, lot 152, to Thorpe, £11.0.6; offered in Thorpe's Supplement for 1842, lot 13219, for £21, and again in 1844; Sotheby's, 26 July 1855 (Charles Meigh Sale), lot 1822, to Toovey; Anderson, 12 November 1919 (Avery Sale), lot 961, to George D. Smith for the Spencer Collection in the New York Public Library, $375. New York Public Library, February 1950, to W.S. Lewis, by exchange to Yale for the Lewis Walpole Collection.
Extent: [4], 158 p. : 24 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 49 2523

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Binders' stamps (Binding) Jenkins & Cecil
Binders' stamps (Binding) National Library Binding
Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance)
Original art
Material: plates ;
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Jenkins & Cecil
National Library Binding
Barrett, Thomas, 1744-1803 > Bookplate
Beckford, William, 1760-1844 > Ownership
Carlingford, Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, Baron, 1823-1898 > Bookplate
Cole, William, 1714-1782 > Gift of Horace Walpole
Cole, William, 1714-1782 > Ms. notes
Colman, Dudley > Ownership
Currie, Laurence, 1867-1934 > Bookplate
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 9-1828 > Ms. notes
Forster, William > Ownership
Gaskill, Francis Almon, 1846-1909 > Ownership
Hall, Frederick Mcdonald > Ownership
Hall, R. C. > Ownership
Harcourt, George Simon Harcourt, Earl, 1736-1809 > Autograph
Harcourt, George Simon Harcourt, Earl, 1736-1809 > Gift of Horace Walpole
Harcourt, George Simon Harcourt, Earl, 1736-1809 > Ms. notes
Hardcastle, William > Bookplate
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ownership
Lewis, W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon), 1895-1979 > Ms. notes
Manley, Esq., fl. 1843 > Ownership
Spoor, John A. (John Alden), 1851-1926 > Bookplate
Waldegrave, Frances Braham Waldegrave, Countess, 1821-1879 > Autograph
Waldegrave, Geoffrey Noel Waldegrave, Earl, 1905- > Ownership
Waldegrave, William Frederick Waldegrave, Earl, 1851-1930 > Bookplate
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Bookplate
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Gift to Lord Harcourt
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Gift to William Cole
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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Access: Public

Identifiers

Orbis Record: 1774896
Object ID (OID): 33207545

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