Recueil de divers ouvrages

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Title: Recueil de divers ouvrages
Creator: Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780
Contributor: Wiart, Jean Francois.
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Description: Bound in red morocco, with a clasp.
Accompanied by Horace Walpole's "portrait" of Madame du Deffand [Holograph] (3 p.) and his account of her "portraits" [Holograph] (5 p.)
Includes an index.
Some "portraits" are printed as appendices in the Yale edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, 1939, v.8, including one of Horace Walpole.
Provenance: Part of the ms. collection bequeathed by Madame du Deffand to Horace Walpole. Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, 1842, to D.O. Dyce-Sombre whose nephew, W.R. Parker-Jervis sold it in 1920. Acquired by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis in 1938.
Extent: 272, [2 blank], [8] p. ; bound to 24 cm.
Language: French

Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780 > Ownership
Dyce-Sombre, David Ochterlony, 1808-1851 > Ownership
Parker-Jervis, William Robert, 1841-1919 > Ownership

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