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Aedes Walpolianae; or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk : the seat of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1752 Walpole
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745--Art collections--Catalogs.
- Walpole, Robert.
- Walpole family--Art collections--Catalogs.
- Walpole family.
- Houghton Hall (England).
- Houghton Hall (England)--Poetry.
- Painting, Italian--England--Norfolk--Catalogs.
- Painting, Italian.
- Painting--England--Norfolk--Catalogs.
- Painting.
- Painting--Private collections--England--Norfolk--Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- xxxv, [1], [37]-143, p., [6] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., plans, ports. ; 28 cm.
- Edition:
- The second edition with additions.
- Other Title:
- Aedes Walpolianae
- Description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by John Hughs near Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, Printed in the year M Dcc LII (1752)
- Contents:
- A description of the pictures at Houghton-Hall
- A sermon on painting
- A journey to Houghton : a poem / by Mr. Whaley.
- Notes:
- "The ... account of Lord Orford's collection of pictures, is rather intended as a catalogue than as a description of them"--Introd.
- Dedication signed: Horace Walpole.
- Printer's statement taken from colophon.
- Revision and enlargement of: 1st ed., 1747.
- Pagination error: p. 48 numbered 40.
- Contains elevations and plans of Houghton Hall, Norfolk.
- Illustrations: 6 full plates: engraved. Some are folded. Plates engraved by George Vertue, after Christian Friedrich Zincke, and Thomas Ripley.
- Binding: Half bound in brown leather and marbled paper, spine with gilt fillet and gilt lettering.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Robert L. Raley.
- Athenaeum copy: Bookplates of Robert L. Raley and George Montagu on front pastedown of c.1.
- Athenaeum has 2 copies; both of them are gift of Robert L. Raley, the famous architect. Collation of 2nd copy: [1], 223-287 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm. This copy lacks the complete section of A journey to Houghton : a poem / by Mr. Whaley. Also, none of the illustrations in this copy is folded. This copy is half bound in black morocco and marbled paper, with marbled endpapers.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T132890
- Hazen, A.T. Walpole, 4
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