A catalog of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole

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Label

A catalog of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole

Instantiates

• A catalog of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole

Publication

• London, Smith and Robins, printers, 1842

Note

• Engraved t.-p
• Sold by George Robins, the auctioneer. The sale was advertised to occupy twenty-four days, from April 25th to May 21st. The catalogue was badly compiled, and so much dissatisfaction was expressed at the intention of selling some of the collections en masse, that the contents of the seventh and eighth days' sale, which consisted of prints, drawings and illustrated books, were withdrawn, recatalogued, and disposed of at a sale at Robins's rooms at Covent Garden, which lasted from the 13th to the 23rd of June. The amount realized at the sale at Strawberry Hill was £29,612, and at that in London, £3,837. The library, consisting of books, manuscripts, prints, etc., sold for about £7,740. Cf. Fletcher, English book collectors, p. 214

Dimensions

28 x 28 cm.

Extent

xxiv, 250 p.

Lccn

14004627

Note

• Spec. coll. copy: Prices and purchasers noted in manuscript.
• Clark Library copy: Edition IV., with lots 149-187 added to the 6th day (among other additions), including lots 169-187, cataloging the Waldegrave manuscripts. Days 7 and 8 are intact, but not in their final state before removal. See Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's Library. Introduction, p. xxix.
• Clark Library copy bound with: Aedes Strawberrianae. Names of purchasers and the prices to the sale catalogue of the collections ... formed by Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. [London]: J. H. Burn, [1842]. 57, [1] p.

Other physical details

front. (port.) illus.

Record ID

3428854

System control number

• (OCoLC)02003174
• ucoclc2003174