A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill / collected by Horace Walpole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rare books.

Manuscripts--Catalogs.

Manuscripts.

Engraving--Private collections.

Engraving.

Art--Private collections.

Art.

Art objects--Private collections.

Art objects.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 250 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Strawberry Hill, Catalogue of the classic contents of.

Place of Publication:

[London] : Smith and Robins, printers, [1842]

Notes:

Engraved title-page.

Sold by George Robins, the auctioneer. The sale was advertised to occupy twenty-four days, from April 25th to May 21st. The catalogue was badly compiled, and so much dissatisfaction was expressed at the intention of selling some of the collections en masse, that the contents of the seventh and eighth days' sale, which consisted of prints, drawings and illustrated books, were withdrawn, recatalogued, and disposed of at a sale at Robins's rooms at Covent Garden, which lasted from the 13th to the 23rd of June. The amount realized at the sale at Strawberry Hill was L29,612, and that in London, L3,837. The library, consisting of books, manuscripts, prints, etc., sold for about L7,740. cf. Fletcher, English book collectors, p. 214.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: frontispiece portrait wanting.

OCLC:

2003174