Accession number
PML 7586.1
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Published
London : Printed by John Hughs, near Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, Printed in the year M DCC LII [1752]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, by 1906.
Notes
Pagination error: p. 48 numbered 40.
"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.
Engraved frontispieces of Sir Robert Walpole signed "F. Zinke effig. p. 1744" and "G. Vertue de. de sculp. 1748" and Catherine Lady Walpole signed "F. Zinke effig. p. 1735" and "G. Vertue de. de sculp. 1748"
The last p. is blank.
PML copy with mezzotint portrait of Sr. Robert Walpole tipped-in after title-page, signed "G. Kneller Bart. pixint" and "J. Faber fecit 1733." Plate no. 28 from: Faber, J. Kit-Cat Club : done from the original paintings of Sr. Godfrey Kneller. London: Tonson and Faber, [1732-1735].
"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.
Engraved frontispieces of Sir Robert Walpole signed "F. Zinke effig. p. 1744" and "G. Vertue de. de sculp. 1748" and Catherine Lady Walpole signed "F. Zinke effig. p. 1735" and "G. Vertue de. de sculp. 1748"
The last p. is blank.
PML copy with mezzotint portrait of Sr. Robert Walpole tipped-in after title-page, signed "G. Kneller Bart. pixint" and "J. Faber fecit 1733." Plate no. 28 from: Faber, J. Kit-Cat Club : done from the original paintings of Sr. Godfrey Kneller. London: Tonson and Faber, [1732-1735].
Description
xxxv, [1], [37]-143, [1] pages, [6] leaves of plates (some fold) : illustrations, portrait, plans (engravings) ; 28 cm
Provenance
Horace Walpole's copy with his marginal annotations and corrections; Pierpont Morgan, purchased by 1906.
Binding
20th-century 1/4 red morocco with red cloth sides, by Charlotte Ullman, 1967.
Classification
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