The bookplates of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries : with selected passages from the Letters of Horace Walpole and illustrated by over 100 book plates of the friends to whom the letters referred, Chicago, 1923 / the selections made and the whole arranged in this form by Wellington R. Townley.

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The bookplates of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries : with selected passages from the Letters of Horace Walpole and illustrated by over 100 book plates of the friends to whom the letters referred, Chicago, 1923 / the selections made and the whole arranged in this form by Wellington R. Townley.

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Manuscript in a single hand, with examples of bookplates of Horace Walpole's friends and correspondents, arranged alphabetically and mounted on leaves interspersed with brief biographies of the bookplate owners and excerpts from Walpole's letters about the subjects. Written as a wedding present for Townley's wife, Bella Madden Townley. Two letters tipped in; one a fragment from 'Orford' and dated from London January the nineteenth 1795 to Richard French, Esq.; the second from Lady Pomfret, to Lady Sundon, dated 1737 Nov. 22 in which she expresses her sorrow at the sudden death of Queen Caroline and concern over Lady Sundon's own recent illness.

1 v. a-h, [1], i-x, [2], 201 [i.e., 298] leaves : ill., port. ; 26 cm.

Yale University, Lewis Walpole Library

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