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[WALPOLE]. [CATALOGUE - STRAWBERRY HILL]. A Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
London [George Robins 1842]. quarto undistinguished modern cloth with original printed wrapps bound in; xxiv,250pp, portrait, ills through the prefatory pages. Somewhat used and dogeared but pretty good; and with a number of pencilled annotations and prices; inked onto the endpaper the totals for each day’s sales. ¶ The library and contents of Walpole’s treasure house - the foundation of Gothick (not to be confused with the more prosaic gothic revival) - sold by auction over 24 days. Included in the prefatory material is a description of Strawberry Hill by Harrison Ainsworth.
Offered for AUD 570.00 = appr. US$ 454.29 by: Richard Neylon, Bookseller - Book number: 5747