Onuphrio Muralto = Horace Walpole., The first state of the title-page, 1790, is found in thin paper copies, with uncorrected text, possibly for local sale., At least 2 copies on vellum have title-page in state 2, and text of the cancels., Half-title: Edwards's edition of the Castle of Otranto., BEIN: Vellum binding by Edwards of Halifax., and 25.5 cm. Frontispiece A and B. First leaf wanting. Extra-illustrated, including: folding map, drawings by F. Miller and G.P. Harding; 6 plates published by Harding in 1793; frontispiece of Sivrac's translation, 1795; Miel's plates from Berlin edition, 1794; Kirgate's notes; 2 trade cards.
Publisher:
Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, bookseller of London
LWL 49 2387.2: Horace Walpole's copy with annotations and a pencil sketch on last fly-leaf., LWL 49 2387.2: 'Rebound in green morocco by Alfred Matthews' (Allen Tracy Hazen), LWL 49 2387.2: G.D. Smith (N.Y.) to Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, Nov. 1927. Ex dono Annie Burr Jennings (Probably paid for the book), and Rebound in green morocco by Alfred Matthews; no bookplate and not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Many marginal notes by Horace Walpole, chiefly on the pictures of Blenheim and Ditchley. (See Horace Walpole to Montagu, 19 July 1760.) Very probably it was this volume that led Horace Walpole to record in his Description 'Accounts of Blenheim...'. With Horace Walpole's architectural sketch in pencil on last flyleaf; the words "loggias, arcades, stairs, terrasses" are written above image.
