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Portfolio of letters, deeds, and other materials pertaining to his Historic Doubts, 1768
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Portfolio of letters, deeds, and other materials pertaining to his Historic Doubts, 1768.
Published
London, J. Dodsley, 1768.
Physical Description
xv, 134, [2] p. 2 ports. 26 cm.
Notes
Horace Walpole's Historic doubts, untrimmed, in sheets, folded. Plates, signatures P and S wanting. Proof sheet of P has Horace Walpole's corrections; proof of Q has had parts of first 3 l. restored, text supplied in MS. Old gray boards, now enclosed in a half-morocco case.
In portfolio (43 cm., green case) lettered: Letters, extracts ... on ... Historic doubts. From Knowsley Hall.
No BP. Not in MC. Sale label. No. 6, lot 126, pasted on cover.
Also with other unidentified manuscript notes.
Provenance
Strawberry Hill Sale, vi. 126, to Boone for Lord Derby. Christie, 24 March 1954 (Knowsley Hall Sale), lot 34 to Maggs for Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis.
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day vi, lot 126, to Boone for Lord Derby, £8.8.0; Christie's, 24 March 1954 (Knowsley Hall Sale), lot 345.
Variant and related titles
Historic doubts
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 2620
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