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Edinburgh: John Grant. 1906. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in dark blue boards. Some mild age-toning to page edges. Minor marks to boards. Gilt top edge. Leading and bottom edge untrimmed. Gilt title etc to spine. Crest blind-stamped to front boards. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages of all volumes. Quite a nice set. This is a heavy set of books and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Edinburgh: John Grant, 1906. Hardcover. Octavo; 9 volumes; G; Hardcover; Spine, blue with gold print; Boards in blue cloth with gold print, wear to spine caps and corners, light shelfwear, else clean and strong; Text block has gilt top edge, clean and tight unless otherwise noted below, frontispiece in each volume, "with sixty-four steel portraits" with tissue guards; CONTENTS: Vol. I. 1735-1746 (name in ink on front flyleaf, 2 notes tipped in at front flyleaf, cracked front hinge; clxi, 415 pages) - Vol. II. 1746-1756 (xv, 512 pages) - Vol.III. 1756-1762 (light warping; xix, 512 pages) - Vol. IV. 1762-1766 (xxi, 512 pages) - Vol. V. 1766-1773 (cracked front hinge; xxvi, 512 pages) - Vol. VI. 1773-1777 (cracked front hinge, light warping; xxiv, 510 pages) - Vol. VII. 1777-1781 (xxvi, 512 pages) - Vol. VIII. 1781-1785 (cracked front hinge; xxviii, 576 pages) - Vol. IX. 1785-1797 (xxv, 623 pages). Oversized order. Additional shipping and handling may be necessary for expedited/international orders.… Read More

London, UK: Richard Bentley, 1857. First Edition. 1st Printing.. Leather Bound. Good+. L 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Leather Bound. Condition: Good+. Richard Bentley, London, UK 1857. Now first chronologically arranged. First Edition. 1st Printing. Full 5-rib tan leather, top page ends gold gilt, marbled endpapers, reading ribbon. Volumes I-VI 1857, VII-VIII 1858, IX 1859. Moderate general wear. 1/2 of all 'Walpole's Letters' and volume numbers (lettering pieces) missing from spines. Vol. I - II missing chips from spine ends. All front endpapers have bookplate. Binding good, hinges fine, no foxing, all pages complete. Size: L 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Biography Books on Books::Books on Authors History::Britain 6437 6437

Edinburgh: John Grant, 1906. Hardcover. 23.5 x 15 cm. Octavos. Complete 9 volume set uniformly bound in red 3/4 leather and red boards. 5 raised bands to spine. Gilt top foredge and spine lettering. Marble endpapers. With 64 steel portraits. Some rubbing to the edges of the covers. Spines show some edgewear. Chipping.to heads of spines of volumes 7 and 8.

London: Richard Bentley & Son. 1886. ex-library, usual marks, lightly used, very good+; brown cloth, hardback .

London: George Bentley and Son, 1891. Full Calf. Very Good. 8vo. 22.5 by 15 cm. Rubbing along outer joints, and some light abrasions here and there on the leather. Interiors generally clean and tight.

London: Richard Bentley, 1857. Half Leather. Very Good binding. The Letters of Horace Walpole, complete in nine volumes. With frontispiece and additional plates, mostly portraits, in each volume. Text is reasonably bright. Library bookplate on the front pastedown, and library stamp and overlapping withdrawn stamp on the title page. Half dark green morocco over green cloth, with gilt lettering and decoration on the spine. All edges marbled. Very Good binding.

London: Richard Bentley, 1858. 9 volumes. pp. clxi, 415; xvii, 512; xxi, 512; xxiii, 512; xxvii, 512; xxv, 510; xxvii, 519; xxix, 576; xxvii, 623. Frontis's in all vols, 41 plates; brown c w/gilt lettering, slightest hint of dampstain on a few pg edges; two small tears at top spines; lite wear at tips; in mylar protective wraps. The first edition of the Cunningham chronologically arranged letters. First Edition, Thus. Hard Cover. Collectible Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by steel Engravings. 8 Vo.

London, England: Richard Bentley and Son, 1891. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 9 volume set, 8vo. Edited, with a preface by Peter Cunningham. "Now First Chronologically Arranged." Volumes are 3/4 dark blue morocco, marbled boards, marbled inside covers and free endpapers. Five raised bands along spines. Ornate gilt border designs along spines, with gold titles in brown title boxes. The date 1891 is stamped in gold at the bottom edge of each spine. Frontispiece b&w portraits of Horace Walpole &c. opposite title pages, with bounded tissue in-between. Small stamp at upper left corner of front free endpapers of every volume: "Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, England, for Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc." Very minor shelfwear: very light rubbing along cover edges. Light spine fade. Some light tanning along page edges. Tightly bound with very clean and crisp pages. No marks. Volumes are in Very Good condition..

London: Richard Bentley and Son. G : in Good condition. Covers grubby, with noticeable stain to spine and rear board of first volume. Spine of third volume warped. Heraldic bookplate on feps. Handwritten catalogue number on pastedowns. Foxing at eps and edges. Untrimmed at fore and lower edges. 1891. Limited Edition 79 / 100. Vellum covered hardback boards. 270mm x 180mm (11" x 7"). clxi, 415pp; xv, 512pp; xix, 512pp; xxi, 512pp; xxvi, 512pp; xxiv, 510pp; xxvi, 512pp; xxviii, 576pp; xxv, 623pp. Frontis portraits and plates. Original folding plates of crest and family tree in first volume have been replaced with modern photocopies. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. .