An electioneering handbill issued before the King’s Lynn election of 1767
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
File 644 767 W219
Acquired January 2014
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
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
Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence
Acquired March 2013
Edward Williams also wrote under the pseudonym Iolo Morganwg.
Acquired September, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.
Latin verses written by Horace Walpole probably while a student at Eton. With a plain paper wrapper (19th century paper) embossed with the seal of one of the earls of Derby, probably the 14th or 15th earl, both Knights of the Garter.
Purchased June, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.
Bound in 19th century half brown morocco, fully gilt spine, with a portion of the original blue upper wrapper tipped onto front flyleaf. One of 25 large paper copies (Royal quarto), with the additional 58 p. price list bound in. Also tipped in: a letter dated 23 Dec. 1850 from the London bookseller Thomas Thorpe.
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Acquired November, 2010 by the Lewis Walpole Library.
Published 12 Feb. 1768. Practically a page-for-page reprint, incorporating corrections of the errata listed in the first edition.
Acquired October, 2010 by the Lewis Walpole Library.
A satire on William Pulteney and his friends. Most of the “second lesson” is by Walpole; originally published without his knowledge, possibly by Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.
Acquired December, 2010 by the Lewis Walpole Library.
Miscellaneous antiquities, or A collection of curious papers either republished from scarce tracts, or now first printed from original mss. Number [I-II] to be continued occasionally.
Published: Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXII [1772]
Title pages with mss. annotations: “Bamford’s Coffee House May 15, 1773”.
Subjects (Library of Congress): Wyatt, Thomas, Sir, 1503?-1542; Tournaments–Medieval; Sports tournaments; Great Britain–History–Sources.
Lewis Walpole Library new acquisition: July, 2010
