Wisdom of Horace Walpole : with a foreword.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, author.

Buddy, Lewis, author of foreward.

Contributor:

Kirgate Press, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797--Quotations.

Walpole, Horace.

Aphorisms and apothegms.

Aphorisms and Proverbs as Topic.

aphorisms.

Medical Subjects:

Aphorisms and Proverbs as Topic.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bodoni.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Buddy, Lewis, III (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

41 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Kirgate Press, MCMV [1905].

Notes:

"Originally appeared in volume five of The works of Horace Walpole (1798), under the head of Detached thoughts"--Foreword.

"Limited to seventy-five copies on hand-made Italian paper and five copies on imperial Japan, is the first to be printed in the Bodoni type ..."--title page verso.

"Privately printed."

Foreword signed L.B. III [i.e. Lewis Buddy, III].

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has uncut leaves.

OCLC:

61551281