The busy body, or, Men and manners

printed title page and 5 volume set displayed

Vol. 1. A fashionable fop — A fashionable belle / Williams fect. — Royal methodists — Chief pillars of an illustrious house — Gloucestershire glory — Catching a bald coot in an hospital. Vol. 2. The special retainer, or, A patriotic councellor pleading to the point!!! — Foppish attitudes, or, Well known characters no. 1 / Williams fect. — A barristerial duel, or, Who’s sent to Coventry now — The spa fields hunt-er, or A patriot mounted — The life of Cobbett, Plate 1 — The life of Cobbett, Plate 2. Vol. 3. A minister of state trying on his new livery — The life of Cobbett, Plate 3 / Gillray invt. — The life of Cobbett, Plate 4 / Gillray invt. — Suspension of habeas corpus — Castles in the air, or, Villiany rewarded — Traveling by steam. Vol. IV. View of a sea port in Norfolk — How happy I could be with either!! — Beauties of the saloon, a Prime Minister at Covent Garden Theatre — A peace and plenty.!! (Political portraits, no.1) — Two well known officers on full and half pay — A worldly bishop and a godly curate, or, Pillars of the Church.

  • Title: The busy body, or, Men and manners / edited by Humphrey Hedgehog.
  • Publication: London : Published by J. Johnston, 98, Cheapside, and 335 Oxford Street, 1816-1818.

Catalog Record

61 B982

Acquired September 2023

Jeffery’s edition of The castle of Otranto

printed book

  • Author: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
  • Uniform Title: [Castle of Otranto]
  • Title: Jeffery’s edition of The castle of Otranto, a gothic story. Translated by William Marshal, gent. from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto …
  • Edition:A new edition.
  • Publication: London : Printed by Cooper and Graham, and sold by the publishers, No. 11, Pall-Mall, 1796.

Catalog Record

24 17 796 Copy 6

Acquired October 2022

The sportsman’s evening brush

printed text

  • Title: The sportsman’s evening brush : consisting of the best and most approved songs, of the chace ; … calculated to give sporting a zest … : To which is added, The sportsman’s toast assistant, or President’s sentimental guide. (Entirely new).
  • Published: London : Printed for J. Roach, Russel-Court, Drury-Lane, and sold by all the booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland, [1791?]

Catalog Record

74 791 Sp764

Acquired May 2021

Christianity defended

title page

  • Author: Philalethes, Member of the Church of England, author.
  • Title: Christianity defended : in a letter to the Right Honourable Simon Ld. Lovat, (in the Tower for high treason) on the importance of repentance and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, in contradistinction to the execrable heresy of Arianism. Occasion’d by Mr. F——-‘s Account of the behaviour of the late Earl of Kilmarnock / by a member of the Church of England.
  • Publication: London : Sold by M. Cooper; J. Walter, P. and A. Brown, in Bristol : W. Frederick, J. Leake, Bath; and J. Drew, Exon, MDCCXLVI [1746]

Catalog Record

53 L896 746

Acquired March 2020

Memoirs of Mrs. Fitzherbert

description below

Extra-illustrated with the addition of 54 portraits and views (some hand-colored) ranging in date from the late 18th to the late 19th century, inlaid to size. Also bound in at the end is a publisher’s catalog (45, [3] pages) dated New Burlington Street, Jan. 1, 1856

 

  • Author: Langdale, Chas (Charles), 1787-1868, author.
  • Title: Memoirs of Mrs. Fitzherbert; with an account of her marriage with H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, afterwards King George IV / by the Hon. Charles Langdale.
  • Publication: London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, publisherin ordinary to Her Majesty, MDCCCLVI [1856]

Catalog Record

53 H645 S856

Acquired March 2020

Series of very spirited etchings of gigs and their drivers

  • Creator: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851.
  • Title: Series of very spirited etchings of gigs and their drivers / by Alken.
  • Published:[ London] : [publisher not identified], [182-]

Catalog Record 

Quarto 724 820Al

Acquired April 2019

Historical anecdotes of some of the Howard family

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Extra-illustrated copy with eight engravings on ten inserted sheets. A list of the additions written in Morris’s hand(?): The Strawberry Hill copy illustrated with the following engravings: Portrait of Horace Walpole … Henry VIII .. Facsimiles of the signatures of Henry VIII & Edward VI. Portrait of Princess Mary, Marie Stuart reine d’Ecosse, décapitée … Arms of Thomas Holland … Thomas Mowbray .. Portrait of John Howard … Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey … Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk.

  • Author: Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1720-1786, author.
  • Title: Historical anecdotes of some of the Howard family / by the Honourable Charles Howard, Esq.
  • Publication: London : Printed by G. Scott, for J. Robson, bookseller to the Princess Dowager of Wales in New Bond Street, MDCCLXIX [1769]

Catalog Record 

53 N763 769 Copy 2

Acquired November 2018

Anecdotes of painting in England

  • AuthorWalpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
  • TitleAnecdotes of painting in England; with some account of the principal artists … collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; and now digested and published from his original MSS. by Mr. Horace Walpole.
  • EditionThe 2d ed. …
  • PublishedPrinted by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry-Hill, 1765-1771 [i.e. 1780]

Catalog Record

33 10B Copy 8

Acquired February 2017

Horace Walpole and his world

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Extra-illustrated with ninety-one engraved portratis and views, most inlaid to size. Acidic newspaper clippings attached to some preliminary leaves with offset.

  • AuthorWalpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
  • Uniform Title[Correspondence. 1884.]
  • TitleHorace Walpole and his world : select passages from his letters / edited by L. B. Seeley … With eight illustrations after Sir Joshua Reynolds and Sir Thomas Lawrence.
  • PublishedLondon : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.

Catalog Record 

225 884S Copy 6

Acquired July 2016

M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia

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Formerly owned and bound by Horace Walpole, gifted to an unknown recipient with note ‘Ex dono editoris Mr. Horace Walpole’; also with a few 19th century booksellers’ notes on end leaves. Purchased in the 19th century by the then Earl of Orford and remained at Wolterton until sold at Christie’s in December 1989 by Lord Walpole.

  • Author: Lucan, 39-65.
  • Uniform Title: [Pharsalia]
  • Title: M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia / cum notis Hugonis Grotii, et Richardi Bentleii.
  • Published: [Twickenham : Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLX 1760]

Catalog Record

Quarto 33 7 Copy 12

Acquired June 2013