Select letters of Horace Walpole.
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717 - 1797)
Category
Books
Date
1914
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3164468
Summary
Bibliographic description
xx, 385, [11] p. ; 8vo. Provenance: pencil inscription on front free endpaper: "RWKC 1925." [i.e. Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)]. Capital letter "R" written in pencil on front free endpaper. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown: 'The Davenant Bookshop, new and second-hand books, 2 & 3 Turl St., Oxford'. Binding: twentieth-century full publisher's blue cloth, double blind fillet to form a border; blind stamped centrepieces of publisher; upper board: a bell, lower board: monogram; spine gilt.
Makers and roles
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717 - 1797) Alice Drayton Greenwood (1862-1935)