Manuscript in a single hand, with examples of bookplates of Horace Walpole's friends and correspondents, arranged alphabetically and mounted on leaves interspersed with brief biographies of the bookplate owners and excerpts from Walpole's letters about the subjects. Written as a wedding present for Townley's wife, Bella Madden Townley and Two letters tipped in; one a fragment from 'Orford' and dated from London January the nineteenth 1795 to Richard French, Esq.; the second from Lady Pomfret, to Lady Sundon, dated 1737 Nov. 22 in which she expresses her sorrow at the sudden death of Queen Caroline and concern over Lady Sundon's own recent illness
Description:
W.R. Townley, bookplate collector and contributor to The miscellany., Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth earl of Orford, author, politician, historian and patron of the arts; owner of Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, England., In English., Mounted frontispiece: Lithograph portrait of Horace Walpole from the Catalogue of Sale of the Strawberry Hill Collection by Mr. Geo. Robinson in 1842. Lithograph by G. Madeley, 3 Wellington St., Strand, from a painting at Strawberry Hill by Eckhardt in 1754., Stamped on the edge of the inside back cover: Arthur Hertzberg & Craftsmen. Bound in full burgundy morocco, boards with gilt borders; spine lettered and panelled; silk linings. Spine title: The book plates of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries / Wellington R. Townley. With slip case., Bookplate of Wellington Reid Townley, numbered '246' and inscribed "This book belongs to Bella.", Ex libris bookplate of Mazinaw Lake Library: Barbara de Remo Lester [and] John Albert Lester., Pagination as follows: a-h, [1], i-x, [2], 201 [i.e., 298] leaves., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737., Sundon, Charlotte Clayton, Baroness, d. 1742., Pomfret, Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys Fermor, Countess of, 1700?-1761., Townley, W. R. b. 1861. (Wellington Reid),, and Walpole, Horace, 1727-1797
