The Letters of Horace Walpole
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1906. Hardcover. Octavo. Original blue cloth with gilt crest on covers, blind-stamped ruling, and gilt lettering and ruling on spines. Gilt top edges. Frontispiece etchings with tissue guards. Title pages printed in red and black with etched vignettes. This is the first publication of the entire correspondence of Walpole (2665 letters) in chronological order. Illustrated with several crests, and portraits of nobility in each volume. Bindings with light wear along edges, slightly more pronounced at tails of spines. Name of previous owner inked to inside front cover. Block lightly age-toned. Good to very good. Item #55423
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