Accession number
PML 152632
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Published
Parma. : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, bookseller of London., MDCCXCI. [i.e. 1791]
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Written by Horace Walpole.
Half title: Edward's edition of The castle of Otranto.
Large paper copy.
First and only Bodoni edition, measuring 9 11/16 x 6 9/16 inches, with the text and the title hand-ruled.
Extra-illustrated with a suite of 8 engravings, consisting of VI numbered plates "designed by a lady," engraved by Birril, bearing the legend "Pubd as the Act directs 1 July 1793 by E. & S. Harding No. 102 Pall Mall.", with a frontispiece signed "Barlow sculp." and an oval stipple by Harding of Lady Mary Coke, to whom Walpole has written a sonnet. The portrait is signed "Pub. July 9, 1793 by E. & S. Harding. Pall-Mall."
Bookseller's description laid in at front.
Half title: Edward's edition of The castle of Otranto.
Large paper copy.
First and only Bodoni edition, measuring 9 11/16 x 6 9/16 inches, with the text and the title hand-ruled.
Extra-illustrated with a suite of 8 engravings, consisting of VI numbered plates "designed by a lady," engraved by Birril, bearing the legend "Pubd as the Act directs 1 July 1793 by E. & S. Harding No. 102 Pall Mall.", with a frontispiece signed "Barlow sculp." and an oval stipple by Harding of Lady Mary Coke, to whom Walpole has written a sonnet. The portrait is signed "Pub. July 9, 1793 by E. & S. Harding. Pall-Mall."
Bookseller's description laid in at front.
Description
[6], xxxii, 245 p., [2] leaves, VI p. of plates : ill., front., port. ; 25 cm + 8 extra illustrations
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Bound in full red straight grain morocco, gilt-tooled to a neo-classical design, marbled endpapers; in red cloth slipcase.
Classification
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Department