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A catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland : with lists of their works / by the late Horatio Walpole ; enlarged and continued to the present time by Thomas Park.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Bibliography.
- English literature.
- Great Britain--Bio-bibliography.
- Great Britain.
- Nobility--Great Britain.
- Nobility.
- Genre:
- Bio-bibliography.
- Bibliographies.
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Davis, Meyer (donor) (Davis Byron copy)
- Davis, Hilda Emery (donor) (Davis Byron copy)
- Davis, Meyer, Jr. (honoree) (Davis Byron copy)
- Wildman, Thomas (armorial bearings) (Davis Byron copy)
- Physical Description:
- 5 volumes : illustrations, portraits, facsimile ; 22 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for John Scott, 1806.
- Contents:
- Vol. 1. Royal authors of England ; Noble authors of England
- v. 2-4. Noble authors of England
- v. 5. Royal authors of Scotland ; Noble authors of Scotland ; Noble authors of Ireland.
- Notes:
- "S. Gosnell, Printer, Little Queen Street"--Half-t.p. verso.
- "Addenda & Corrigenda" in v. 5, p. 341-396.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Davis Byron copy given to the Penn Libraries in 1966 by Meyer and Hilda Emery Davis in memory of their son, Meyer Davis, Jr.
- Penn Libraries Davis Byron copy bound in full green leather; covers stamped in gold and blind with the armorial bearings of Thomas Wildman stamped in blind above the words "Newstead Abbey"; eight raised bands on spine; spine panels stamped in gold and blind; red morocco label on spine with title stamped in gold; gold-stamped cover edges and turn-ins; yellow watered silk linings; all edges gilt; red silk marker.
- Penn Libraries Davis Byron copy: v. 1 has portraits of Queen Mary and Queen Mary II bound in each other's place with the error noted in ms. in pencil in the margin of p. [xxxi]; the plate "Earl Rivers presenting his book" is bound before p. 216 of v. 1 with the error noted in ms. in pencil in the margin of p. [ix] of v. 2; v. 2 has the plate "Portraits and signature of Elizabeth" bound out of order after p. 76 with the error noted in ms. in pencil in the margin of p. [ix].
- OCLC:
- 961680
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