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., and Mounted, bound to 56 cm. For further information, consult library staff.
Manuscript, in Walpole's and others' hands, of a collection of several dozen scraps of notes, verse fragments, sketches, and drawings, collected from Walpole's papers. The notes are primarily epigrammatic or anecdotal, on such topics as printing books; British monarchs; Waldegrave's time as ambassador at Paris; Lady Mary Coke's affectations; and Sir W. Draper's gambling. The collection also includes several riddles and verses. Some of the notes have been transcribed, on the same page, by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis and The manuscript also contains 29 drawings, including pencil sketches of Strawberry Hill some done by Walpole and others possibly by John Chute; a pen-and-wash drawing of a scene from The Castle of Otranto accompanied by a note of thanks from Mrs Susanna (Highmore) Duncombe; a pen drawing of the actor William Kemp copied from the frontispiece of a book; numerous busts; a detailed pastoral landscape scene in pencil, possibly by Agnes Berry; pencil sketches of a pig, cow, and dog; pen sketches by Sir John Fenn; and a woodcut title page to a book of John Skelton's works, dated 1523
Alternative Title:
Walpoliana mss and drawings
Description:
In English., Laid in: scrap of paper with faded ink writing, possibly Walpole's., Marbled endpapers., Binding: full calf; gilt decoration. In gilt on spine: Walpoliana mss and drawings., and For further information, consult library staff.
Manuscript, in Horace Walpole's hand, containing his notes from Pierre Bayle's A general dictionary, historical and critical. Some leaves have been torn out from the front; final page of notes on back pastedown
Description:
In English., Binding: half calf, marbled papter boards; "Commonplace" in ms. on spine., With Horace Walpole's bookplate (BP1) on fron pastedown along the date and his signature: "H. Walpole 1750.", and Press-mark L.1.2 in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. and Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706.
