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Horace Walpole's Library
Originally published in 1958, and based on The Sandars Lectures for 1957, this volume provides a historical study of the library belonging to eighteenth-century man of letters Horace Walpole (1717–1797). The book is divided into three chapters: the first focuses on the library itself; the second on Walpole's reading; the third on the dispersal of the library following Walpole's death. This is a highly informative text, containing numerous illustrative examples, that will be of value to anyone with an interest in bibliography and eighteenth-century British history.
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Horace Walpole's Library
Originally published in 1958, and based on The Sandars Lectures for 1957, this volume provides a historical study of the library belonging to eighteenth-century man of letters Horace Walpole (1717–1797). The book is divided into three chapters: the first focuses on the library itself; the second on Walpole's reading; the third on the dispersal of the library following Walpole's death. This is a highly informative text, containing numerous illustrative examples, that will be of value to anyone with an interest in bibliography and eighteenth-century British history.
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Horace Walpole's Library

Horace Walpole's Library

by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis
Horace Walpole's Library

Horace Walpole's Library

by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis

Overview

Originally published in 1958, and based on The Sandars Lectures for 1957, this volume provides a historical study of the library belonging to eighteenth-century man of letters Horace Walpole (1717–1797). The book is divided into three chapters: the first focuses on the library itself; the second on Walpole's reading; the third on the dispersal of the library following Walpole's death. This is a highly informative text, containing numerous illustrative examples, that will be of value to anyone with an interest in bibliography and eighteenth-century British history.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521152198
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 04/08/2010
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 100
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.30(d)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; The Sandars Readership; 1. The books; 2. Walpole's reading; 3. The dispersal of the library; Index.
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