Owned in 1877 by Lady Waldegrave.

Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day iv, lot 151, to H.G. Bohn for William Beckford, £18.10.0; Sotheby's, 3 July 13 (Beckford Sale, Part 3) lot 256, to Quaritch for B.Currie, £29.

Gift from Walpole to Cole ; Thomas Barrett at Lee Priory Kent at whose sale at Sotheby's 12 July 1859 it was bought (Catalogue p. 38, no. 523), by Boone.

Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day iv, lot 151, to H.G. Bohn for William Beckford, £18.10.0; Sotheby's, 3 July 13 (Beckford Sale, Part 3) lot 256, to Quaritch for B. Currie, £29.

Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day iv, lot 152, to Thorpe, £11.0.6; offered in Thorpe's Supplement for 1842, lot 13219, for £21, and again in 1844; Sotheby's, 26 July 1855 (Charles Meigh Sale), lot 1822, to Toovey; Anderson, 12 November 1919 (Avery Sale), lot 961, to George D. Smith for the Spencer Collection in the New York Public Library, $375.

One of 12 copies in sheets bought at Strawberry Hill sale (v.196-198) by William Forster, along with "A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry HilI (1842)." In 1843, both titles were given by Forster to a Mr. Manley (Merritt V). Later owned by Dudley Colman, and by F.McD. and R.C. Hall. Sotheby's, 26 Oct. 1959, lot 268 (F.McD., & R.C. Hall sale) to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.

Hodgson's, 30 April 1902 (Damer sale, with her ms. note), lot 147; Parke-Bernet, 4 May 1939 (Spoor sale), lot 904 (or 905) to Brick Row for Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis.

Armorial bookplates (Provenance)

Binders' stamps (Binding) - Jenkins & Cecil.

Binders' stamps (Binding) - National Library Binding.

Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance)

Original art.