WALPOLE (Horace). DOBSON (Austin):

Horace Walpole. A Memoir With an Appendix of Books Printed at the Strawberry Hill Press. With Illustrations by Percy and Leon Moran.

London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1890. LIMITED EDITION. Large 8vo, 250 x 170 mms., pp. 370, frontispiece, illustrations, headpieces, uncut (some leaves unopened), original cloth (cream spine, blue boards); spine faded and sunned. No. 399 of 425 copies: "This edition, consisting of 4 copies on vellum, 5 copies on Van Gelder paper, 50 copies on Japan paper, 425 copies on Dickinson paper, was printed from type in the month of October, 1890. Theo. S. DeVinne & Co."

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Book number: 6132

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WALTON (Izaak):

The Lives of Dr. John Done, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson. To which are added, The Autographs of those Eminent Men, now first collected; An Index, and Illustrated Notes.

London: John Major, Fleet-Street..., 1825. 8vo (in 4s), 165 x 95 mms., pp. xviii, 503 [504 colophon], 11 unnumbered leaves of plates, autographs opposite title-page, 52 woodcuts in text, contemporary plum calf, with gilt roll border enclosed borders in blank, central panel with geometric design repeated, spine gilt with ornaments of fishing, all edges gilt; some slight wear to extremities, but a very good copy, with name of T. P. Richmond in ink on top margin of title-page. This volume was isssued to complement Major's publication in 1823 of an edition of The Compleat Angler. The present volumes was reviewed in The Monthly Review for 1825: "Of the execution of this edition, it is impossible to speak in too high terms of praise. It is beautifully printed on handsome paper...which may vie with the handsomest specimens of the art of book deccoration.... On the whole, we may safely style it a beautiful book, inside and outside both!" e

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Book number: 10012

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