Nos. 1-33 have imprint: London. Printed for W. Locke., No more published., Title page includes table of contents and list of engravings., Verso of title page includes notes to correspondents., Printed in two columns; issue numbering is continuous., Volume number added to direction line of each issue., Miscellany including anecdotes, romances, biographical sketches, poetry and songs. Also includes 43 essays entitled: Adventurer., With the armorial bookplate of Robert Dudley Winthrop., and Bound in green morocco, with gilt edges.
Publisher:
Printed for the proprietors, and sold by D. Brewman
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Anecdotes, English periodicals, Erotica, Biography, English, Music, and Poetry, English
Nos. 1-33 have imprint: London. Printed for W. Locke., No more published., Title page includes table of contents and list of engravings., Verso of title page includes notes to correspondents., Printed in two columns; issue numbering is continuous., Volume number added to direction line of each issue., Miscellany including anecdotes, romances, biographical sketches, poetry and songs. Also includes 43 essays entitled: Adventurer., With the armorial bookplate of Robert Dudley Winthrop., and Bound in green morocco, with gilt edges.
Publisher:
Printed for the proprietors, and sold by D. Brewman
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Anecdotes, English periodicals, Erotica, Biography, English, Music, and Poetry, English
Nos. 1-33 have imprint: London. Printed for W. Locke., No more published., Title page includes table of contents and list of engravings., Verso of title page includes notes to correspondents., Printed in two columns; issue numbering is continuous., Volume number added to direction line of each issue., Miscellany including anecdotes, romances, biographical sketches, poetry and songs. Also includes 43 essays entitled: Adventurer., With the armorial bookplate of Robert Dudley Winthrop., and Bound in green morocco, with gilt edges.
Publisher:
Printed for the proprietors, and sold by D. Brewman
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Anecdotes, English periodicals, Erotica, Biography, English, Music, and Poetry, English
Nos. 1-33 have imprint: London. Printed for W. Locke., No more published., Title page includes table of contents and list of engravings., Verso of title page includes notes to correspondents., Printed in two columns; issue numbering is continuous., Volume number added to direction line of each issue., Miscellany including anecdotes, romances, biographical sketches, poetry and songs. Also includes 43 essays entitled: Adventurer., With the armorial bookplate of Robert Dudley Winthrop., and Bound in green morocco, with gilt edges.
Publisher:
Printed for the proprietors, and sold by D. Brewman
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Anecdotes, English periodicals, Erotica, Biography, English, Music, and Poetry, English
Nos. 1-33 have imprint: London. Printed for W. Locke., No more published., Title page includes table of contents and list of engravings., Verso of title page includes notes to correspondents., Printed in two columns; issue numbering is continuous., Volume number added to direction line of each issue., Miscellany including anecdotes, romances, biographical sketches, poetry and songs. Also includes 43 essays entitled: Adventurer., With the armorial bookplate of Robert Dudley Winthrop., and Bound in green morocco, with gilt edges.
Publisher:
Printed for the proprietors, and sold by D. Brewman
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Anecdotes, English periodicals, Erotica, Biography, English, Music, and Poetry, English
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.
Title devised by curator., "I.C." in ink lower right., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
