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The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, With Sixty-Four Steel Portraits.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, With Sixty-Four Steel Portraits.
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The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, With Sixty-Four Steel Portraits

Cunningham, Peter (Ed.) · Edinburgh

Author
Cunningham, Peter (Ed.)
Date
1906
Place
Edinburgh
Publisher
John Grant
Language
English
Binding
8vo.(5.75" x 9") Signed binding by Worsfold. Nine volumes complete. Half brown leather with generous corners, bright gilt rule to all leather edges, over marbled boards. Spines with five raised bands, gilt lettering to second and third compartments, all of which have gilt rule frames, gilt "1906" to foot. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Minor edgewear, some rubbing to boards, heads of some volumes very lightly chipped with miniscule loss. Minor foxing, mostly to first and last leaves and to fore-edge of pages with scattered marginal spotting. Title pages in red and black ink with centered vignette. Every volume with engraved frontispiece and protective tissue for a total of 64 steel plates. Overall, a substantial set of 9 volumes with very attractive shelf appeal.
Category
Fore-Edge Paintings
Record
S.I.10364

Letters of Horace Walpole Fourth Earl of Orford 64 Steel Portraits. Cunningham, Peter (Ed.) 1906. Edinburgh: John Grant. 8vo.(5.75" x 9") Signed binding by Worsfold. Nine volumes complete. Half brown leather with generous corners, bright gilt rule to all leather edges, over marbled boards. Spines with five raised bands, gilt lettering to second and third compartments, all of which have gilt rule frames, gilt "1906" to foot. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Minor edgewear, some rubbing to boards, heads of some volumes very lightly chipped with miniscule loss. Minor foxing, mostly to first and last leaves and to fore-edge of pages with scattered marginal spotting. Title pages in red and black ink with centered vignette. Every volume with engraved frontispiece and protective tissue for a total of 64 steel plates. Overall, a substantial set of 9 volumes with very attractive shelf appeal.

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