Bookplates of Horace Walpole and Paul Latcham. Unidentified contemporary MS pharmaceutical calculation on front flyleaf recto. MS list of contents in 18th-c. hand on front flyleaf verso, possibly in Michael Lort’s hand
49 2333
Acquired April 2007
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.
Quarto 33 7 Copy 12
Acquired June 2013
Horace Walpole’s copy with his bookplate and note on fly-leaf. Includes life of Aeschines and Jean Le Clerc’s Silvae Philologicae.
49 2207 3
Acquired October 2005
Album of ca. 40 pen and ink, wash, and one color drawing of scenes in Yorkshire, most dated (30 April 1799-9 June 1801) and “drawn on the spot”, with the artist’s identification of the locales, buildings, and ruins. The first is dated April 30th 1799 and is a view of Fountain’s Abbey and followed by several sketches of ships and trees, a cottage, and two views of a bridge with a village in the distance. These sketches are followed by a series 24 non-sequentially numbered sketches, half of which are half-page oval designs. Six more drawings — wash, pencil, or ink — follow executed in 1801. The penultimate leaf contains a pencil drawing of The ruins of Wallop Church, dated Ap: 15th 1805 on the verso and a rough sketch of a scene on the verso. The final leaf is a wash drawing of a vista and is signed E. Johnson, JPearson, JPearson and is undated; another rough pencil drawing of trees and tower on the verso.
Folio 75 P359 805
Acquired before 2002
James Granger to Horace Walpole, 24 July 1764
Horace Walpole to Charles Lyttelton, 22 May 1736
Horace Walpole to Bertie Greatheed, 22 February 1796
Horace Walpole to Sir William Hamilton, 18 February 1776
Horace Walpole to Thomas Pitt, 5 June 1764
Horace Walpole to Joseph Walker, 4 April 1791
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
LWL MSS 1
Horace Walpole’s copy
49 1992
Acquired May 2005
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
806.07.28.01.1+
Acquired May 2007
Uncut copy with misprint in running title on p. 74. Interleaved, without illustrations, genealogical tables or music. Extensively annotated and corrected throughout by the author in preparation of the definitive edition (which was never published). First ed. was published at the Strawberry Hill Press in April 1758
49 2978B
Acquired 2005
6 plates of dignitaries in official wigs, law wig, bar wig, reverend wig, etc., the top 5 with cutouts revealing face on the 6th plate which is depicted with natural uncut and unattractive locks.
657 818 L43
Acquired November 2003
Inscribed on front free endpaper by Edeard Cheney and with his library stamp: “From the Strawberry Hill ale, once belonging to Maria Stewart, the step mother of Horace Walpole, July 7th 1842.”
49 1849
Acquired November 2007
