Dedication signed: Horace Walpole.

Originally issued with folded pedigree, which followed the Advertisement, p. [9-10]; this pedigree was found to contain errors, and was corrected in some copies; Walpole apparently remained dissatisfied with it, and later removed it from the copies still on hand.

Final page blank.

Bookplate of Charles Butler of Warren Wood, Harfield.

Gift of Horace Walpole to Lady Frances Erskine for James Erskine of Alva, "soon after" publication. Cf. Inscription in an unidentified hand.

Gift of Horace Walpole to George Montagu (cf. Yale Walpole 10:129) with Montagu's armorial bookplate and autograph; bookplate of F.J.O. Montagu.

Gift of Horace Walpole to the Earl of Powis, who gave it to Benjamin Booth.-cf. inscription identified as in the hand of Lord Powis in a note signed J.F. [Ford?]. Bookplate of Marianne Ford.

Gift of Horace Walpole to Isaac Reed, with the latter's notes.-cf. note in an unidentified hand. With unidentified armorial bookplate: Credunt quod vidunt. Lot 6473, King & Lochée, 2 November 1807 (Reed sale).

Gift of Horace Walpole to his cousin Lord Walpole.-cf. Lord Walpole's note.

With the armorial bookplate of Thomas Grenville; his arms on covers. Marked duplicate: presumably not given to the British Museum with his library.

With armorial bookplate of Syston Park and bookplate of Mortimer L. Schiff. Sotheby's 6 Dec. 1938 (Schiff sale) lot 2203, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis. Probably lot 3905, Evans, 4 May 1829 (George Hibbert sale). Lot 913, Sotheby, 16 Dec. 1884 (Thorold or Syston Park sale); lot 115, Hodgson, 13 June 1926 (miscellaneous).

Gift of Francis Seymour-Conway, Viscount Beauchamp to William Eden.--Cf. Undated inscription. With armorial bookplate of Lord Auckland; bookplate of John A. Spoor.

Gift of Horace Walpole to T. Warton. Inscribed "T. Warton. The gift of the editor." Pictorial bookplate of William H. Booth.

Armorial bookplate of Thomas Grenville; his arms on covers. Marked duplicate: presumably not given to the British Museum with his library.

Gift of Horace Walpole to S. Lysons, 1787-cf. Lysons's inscription. Lot 1052, Evans, 9 June 1820 (Lysons sale).

Lot 342 (with Hoyland's Poems, and a Bodoni Otranto), Sotheby, 14 Dec. 1948 (Harcourt sale) to Pickering.

Gift of Horace Walpole to Lord Nuneham, 21 August 1764-cf. note in unidentified [20th century?] hand. Armorial bookplate of George Simon, Earl of Harcourt.

Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press 11

English short title catalogue, N33713

Authors, English > Biography > Early works to 1800.

Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance) - 18th century.

Binders' stamps (Binding) - Dérome le jeune.

Binders' stamps (Binding) - Rivière & Son.

Binders' stamps (Binding) - Jenkins & Cecil.