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Hieroglyphic tales / Horace Walpole.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PR3757.W2 H5 1926
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 85 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : E. Mathews limited, 1926.
- Notes:
- "Of this edition 250 copies have been printed by hand ... with the original 12 point type Cuneo of Giambattista Bodoni by Officina Bodoni, Montagnola, Switzerland."
- From the first edition, 1785, of which only 6 copies were printed at Strawberry hill. "Some notes, written by Horace Walpole in his copy of the first-sheets ... now in the British museum, have been added". cf. Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- OCLC:
- 2016189
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