Author: [WALPOLE (Horace)]:
Title: A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, With Lists of their Works. In Two Volumes. The Second Edition, corrected and enlarged.
Description: London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley..., 1759. 2 volumes. 8vo, 183 x 115 mms., pp. [vi], viii, [2], 247 [248 blank, 249 - 251 Index, 252 blank' [ii], 250 [251 -256 Index], engraved frontispiece and engraved plate of music opposite page 202 in volume 1, attractively bound in contemporary red sheepskin, spines ornately gilt to a thistle motif in compartments, olive morocco labels; joints a bit rubbed and worn but sound, slight chips to tops of spines, corners slightly worn, but an attractive set, with the contemporary ownership inscription on recto of leaf preceding frontispiece in volume 1, "P[hilip]. Griffin St. Edmund Hall Oxon" and a similar inscription in volume 2. Walpole published his Catalogue in 1758, and in the same year sold the copyright to Dodsley, who published 2000 copies of this edition.

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