The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. / Edited by Peter Cunningham. Now first chronologically arranged.
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717 - 1797)
Category
Books
Date
1857 - 1859
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3155538
Summary
Bibliographic description
9 v., plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Provenance: bookseller's code in pencil on verso of front free endpaper in v. 1. Capital letter "R" written in pencil on half-title page in vols. 1,4,5,7,8 and on verso of frontispiece in vols. 2,3,6,9. Pencil note on verso of frontispiece in v. 2: "Begun February 22. 04". Binding: nineteenth-century full publisher's brown cloth; blind-tooling on boards and spines; gilt-stamped centrepiece (Walpole crest) on upper boards; gilt lettering on spines; brown endpapers. Binder's ticket: Bound by Edmonds & Remnants. London.
Makers and roles
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717 - 1797) Peter Cunningham (1816-1869), editor