Title from item., Date based on printmaker's death date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 147 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Silvester, Richard William, 1769 or 1770-1842, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800?]
Call Number:
Quarto 66 726 T675
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Title from item., Place and publisher conjectured by content., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 163 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Autographed letter signed by John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, and addressed to the booksellers Messrs. Dodsley on the subject of Horace Walpole. He commences the letter by asking to see any work by "Mr Walpole": "I am told of one that it is very difficult to be procured". He says that he met "Mr Walpole" many years ago at Houghton when he was treated with “honours and civility," but has never had "an opportunity of improving my acquaintance with him" but would "you oblige me to the highest degree in trying to let me have one of his books". Signed "Corke".
Description:
John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork (1707-1762), writer, friend of Swift, Pope and Johnson., In English., Date based on beginning of partnership of Robert and James Dodsley, Dodsley spelled "Dodseley" in the address., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. and R. and J. Dodsley.