A description of the villa ...

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Title: A description of the villa ...
Alternative Title: Title-pages
Creator: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Published / Created: 1784 [1797?]
Publisher: Strawberry Hill
Description: Mounted on page 1 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
Printed in red, black, blue, with colored border (flowers, fruit, leaves); colored vignette, armorial; view of Strawberry Hill below imprint.
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Provenance: Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent: 1 l. 30.2 x 22.8 cm., mounted, bound to 56 cm.
Language: English

Subjects: Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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