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WALPOLE, Horace (1717-97). A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, with Lists of their Works ... The Second Edition, corrected and enlarged, London: R. & J. Dodsley, 1759 [but December 1758]. 2 volumes, 8°. Engraved frontispieces, ornaments on titles. Finely-bound in contemporary red morocco, covers with triple gilt fillet borders, spines gilt in compartments with repeated floral motifs, gilt edges. Hazen Strawberry Hill Press p.36: "2,000 copies"; Lowndes VII, 2818.
With 7 other books by Horace Walpole, A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England ... The Third Edition (Dublin, 1759, 2 vols. in one), Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third ... The Second Edition (London, 1768, 19th-century red armorial morocco gilt), a Dublin edition of the same (1768), The Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story ... The Third Edition (London, 1769), A Catalogue of Engravers (London, 1782) and The Mysterious Mother (Dublin, 1791, portrait), all bound in contemporary calf (except where indicated). (8)
With 7 other books by Horace Walpole, A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England ... The Third Edition (Dublin, 1759, 2 vols. in one), Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third ... The Second Edition (London, 1768, 19th-century red armorial morocco gilt), a Dublin edition of the same (1768), The Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story ... The Third Edition (London, 1769), A Catalogue of Engravers (London, 1782) and The Mysterious Mother (Dublin, 1791, portrait), all bound in contemporary calf (except where indicated). (8)
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