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. 8vo.(5.75" x 9") 1906.9 volumes complete. Edinburgh: John Grant. Full maroon crushed levant with heavy gilt fancy rule framing a centered gilt monogram within a laurel wreath to each cover. Spines with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt lettering to the second and fourth compartments, heavy gilt decoration and gilt fancy rule frames to all others, gilt "Edinburgh" to foot. Top edge gilt, others deckled, green endpapers. Armorial bookplate of the Law Family centered to each upper pastedown, title page in red and black, engraved portrait frontispieces. Thick gilt dentelle turn-ins to each cover. Evidence of repair to several covers, some joints tender, but holding firmly. Minor edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, head and foot of spines with minor chipping and loss, Vols. VIII, IX with professionally repaired head of spine, replacing original leather (see pic). Illustrated with 64 steel engravings including frontispieces. A very attractive set of books.

From Wiki: Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician. He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenham, southwest London, reviving the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors.

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