A commonplace book of verses, stories, characters, letters, etc. etc. : with some particular memoirs of a certain parcel of people, 1740-[1763].

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16703002

Description

Title
A commonplace book of verses, stories, characters, letters, etc. etc. : with some particular memoirs of a certain parcel of people, 1740-[1763].
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Description
Bound in vellum.
Marbled wrapper, cased in green morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Bookplate of R.B. Adam.
Provenance
Not identifiable in Strawberry Hill Sale, but perhaps one of the miscellaneous manuscripts in some lot like day vi, lot 150. Perhaps the Memorandum Book offered at Sotheby's, 19 March 1852 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 150, and again at Hodgson's, 23 January 1853 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 1529. It was donated by Miss H.F. Wood when sold at Christie's, 4 April 1917 (Red Cross Sale), lot 1782, to Maggs, £33.12.0; ofiered by Maggs, Catalogue 362 (1917), for £105; Sotheby's, 7 November 1918 (Pittar Sale), lot 685, to Trotter, £55; Sotheby's, 17 December 1919 (Pittar Sale), lot 260, to G.D. Smith, £76. Anderson, 16 February 1926 (Adam Sale), lot 411, to Dr. Rosenbach for W.S. Lewis,
Extent
1 32 cm. v. ([2, 90] p.) ;
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Quarto 49 2616 I Ms

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Commonplace books
Resource Type
unspecified
Subjects
Waldegrave, Geoffrey Noel Waldegrave, Earl, 1905- > Ownership
Toynbee, Paget Jackson, 1855-1932 > Ms. notes

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
1763621
Object ID (OID)
16703002

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