Title from text etched within banner at bottom of image., Printmaker identified by Horace Walpole in his copy of Gray's Odes in The Lewis Walpole Library., Publication information from book in which this plate was published., Frontispiece to: Ode on the death of a favourite cat., Plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753., Mounted on page 83 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 26.8 x 20.9 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Title from text etched within banner at bottom of image., Printmaker identified by Horace Walpole in his copy of Gray's Odes in The Lewis Walpole Library., Publication information from book in which this plate was published., Frontispiece to: Ode on the death of a favourite cat., and Plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753.
Statement of his grievances against Dublin booksellers who issued pirated editions of his The history of Sir Charles Grandison. A somewhat modified version was published with title: The case of Samuel Richardson, of London, printer.
Subject (Name):
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. History of Sir Charles Grandison
Title from text etched within banner at bottom of image., Printmaker from signature on lettered state: J.S. Müller sc., Variant state, probably a proof before letters, of a plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753., Publication information from book in which the lettered state of this plate was published., Frontispiece to: Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Mounted on page 84 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
A design by Bentley showing a scene from Book IV Canto V, in the House of Care where Scudamore is kept awake and miserable by the clanging and pinching of blacksmiths
Description:
Title from caption written by Horace Walpole in ink on mount., Date and artist from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso: By Richard Bentley, Esq., 1754., and Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 4 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].