[STRAWBERRY HILL PRESS]. [WALPOLE, HORACE]. A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England... Strawberry Hill, 1758. Engraved frontipiece in first volume. 2 volumes, small 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, worn; title-page repaired along gutter margin in vol. 2, some scattered foxing. FIRST EDITION, second state, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by recipient, the York printer Caesar Ward, on a two slips of paper (one mounted on each front pastedown in each volume) which reads: "Caesar Ward, Ebor. ex dono Hon. Horatii Walpole, Macenatis Anglici, 24 Aprilis 1758." Each volume with several marginal notes by Ward (a few trimmed by binder [some preserved on wider margins and folded in]) -- WALPOLE. Anecdotes of Painting in England...Collected by Mr. George Vertue [-- A Catalogue of Engravers]. Strawberry Hill: Printed by Thomas Kirgate, [Vols. I-III and Catalogue] 1765 and [Vol. IV] 1771. 109 engraved portraits. 5 volumes, 4to, contemporary red morocco, gilt-ruled on covers, spines gilt, spines slightly darkened with some wear at ends, some scattered light foxing and offsetting. Second edition -- RICHARDSON, JONATHAN. The Works. Strawberry Hill, 1792. 12 engraved plates on tinted paper. 4to, contemporary calf, spine ends chipped at ends, joints cracked. New edition. (8)

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[STRAWBERRY HILL PRESS]. [WALPOLE, HORACE]. A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England... Strawberry Hill, 1758. Engraved frontipiece in first volume. 2 volumes, small 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, worn; title-page repaired along gutter margin in vol. 2, some scattered foxing. FIRST EDITION, second state, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by recipient, the York printer Caesar Ward, on a two slips of paper (one mounted on each front pastedown in each volume) which reads: "Caesar Ward, Ebor. ex dono Hon. Horatii Walpole, Macenatis Anglici, 24 Aprilis 1758." Each volume with several marginal notes by Ward (a few trimmed by binder [some preserved on wider margins and folded in]) -- WALPOLE. Anecdotes of Painting in England...Collected by Mr. George Vertue [-- A Catalogue of Engravers]. Strawberry Hill: Printed by Thomas Kirgate, [Vols. I-III and Catalogue] 1765 and [Vol. IV] 1771. 109 engraved portraits. 5 volumes, 4to, contemporary red morocco, gilt-ruled on covers, spines gilt, spines slightly darkened with some wear at ends, some scattered light foxing and offsetting. Second edition -- RICHARDSON, JONATHAN. The Works. Strawberry Hill, 1792. 12 engraved plates on tinted paper. 4to, contemporary calf, spine ends chipped at ends, joints cracked. New edition. (8)
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[First work:] Caesar Ward, mounted slip (see above) in each volume; T.D. Bland, Kippax Park, bookplate in each volume.

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