BEIN Speck Rc37 +c839: 27 cm. Bound 2 v. in 1. Errata sheet tipped into v. 1. Bookplate: Ex libris Robert Hoe. Binder's ticket: Bound by Josiah Westley, London., The plates engraved by John Brain from Retzsch's Outlines., and Vol. 2 has imprint: London, Chapman & Hall; Leipsic, F.A. Brockhaus.
Eliz 96: Title page repaired, the last letters of the imprint and date supplied (incorrectly) in facsimile. Bound by F. Bedford in green goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. The Hoe copy (with bookplate), sold by Anderson Auction Co., New York, 28 April 1911, lot 1684. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911.
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
Eliz 95: Bound by W. Pratt in calf, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. Title and several leaves repaired, final leaf inserted from a shorter copy. The Hoe copy (with bookplate), sold by Anderson Auction Co., New York, 28 April 1911, lot 1687. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911.
Publisher:
printed for William Barrenger, and are to be sold at his shop neare the great north-doore of Pauls
