Author: SEELEY, L. B; Editor.
Title: Horace Walpole and His World, Selected Passages from His Letters.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. viii, 296; marbled endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Horace Walpole, seven other illustrations after Sir Joshua Renolds and Sir Thomas Lawrence, top edges gilt, contemporary half leather binding with marbled boards , raised bands, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt decoration to spine: previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper, a few minor institutional stamps, but still a very attractive tight copy. London, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 54 Fleet Street, 1884. The entire published correspondence of Walpole is made up of more than 3000 letters, this is a selection of the best specimens covering a wide variety of subjects, Country Life, Politics, Social Entertainments, Key Personalities of the Time, English Scenery, History, Trade, Fashion, etc. Key literary figures of the time Walter Scott and Lord Byron pronounced Walpole letters to be the best in the English language, they declared him the prince of letter-writers.

Keywords: Literature, Politics, Walpole,