WALPOLE, Horace -- KIRBY, John (1690-1753). The Suffolk Traveller: or, a Journey through Suffolk. Ipswich: John Bagnall, 1735. 8° (168 x 99mm). (Some light spotting and browning.) Contemporary speckled calf (extremities rubbed, small chips to spine, joints slightly split). Provenance: Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford (1717-1797; bookplate) -- J. Towlerton Leather (bookplate) -- manuscript corrections and marginalia in an unidentified hand.
HORACE WALPOLE'S COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. 'Walpole left Strawberry Hill to his cousin, Anne Seymour Damer, for her life use and, ultimately, to the descendants of his favourite niece, Maria Walpole, Countess Waldegrave. 1n 1842 the 7th Earl of Waldegrave ordered the sale that was to scatter his great-great-uncle's books and other collections about the world' (W.S. Lewis, Horace Walpole's Library, p. 46). Hazen, Catalogue of Walpole's Library 744.
WALPOLE, Horace -- KIRBY, John (1690-1753). The Suffolk Traveller: or, a Journey through Suffolk. Ipswich: John Bagnall, 1735. 8° (168 x 99mm). (Some light spotting and browning.) Contemporary speckled calf (extremities rubbed, small chips to spine, joints slightly split). Provenance: Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford (1717-1797; bookplate) -- J. Towlerton Leather (bookplate) -- manuscript corrections and marginalia in an unidentified hand.
HORACE WALPOLE'S COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. 'Walpole left Strawberry Hill to his cousin, Anne Seymour Damer, for her life use and, ultimately, to the descendants of his favourite niece, Maria Walpole, Countess Waldegrave. 1n 1842 the 7th Earl of Waldegrave ordered the sale that was to scatter his great-great-uncle's books and other collections about the world' (W.S. Lewis, Horace Walpole's Library, p. 46). Hazen, Catalogue of Walpole's Library 744.
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