- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
- Call Number:
- 49 2039A
- Image Count:
- 30
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in Horace Walpole's hand, containing his notes from Pierre Bayle's A general dictionary, historical and critical. Some leaves have been torn out from the front; final page of notes on back pastedown
- Description:
- boards; "Commonplace" in ms. on spine.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. and Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Commonplace book], 1750
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- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
- Call Number:
- 49 2615
- Image Count:
- 92
- Abstract:
- : notes on books he is reading; observations
- Description:
- Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron of the arts, youngest son of Robert Walpole, first earl of Orford (1676-1745), Britain's longest-serving prime minister., In English., Available in pdf format, Two volumes (1759 and 1771) bound in green vellum, one volume (1786) in red morocco with clasps. With Walpole's bookplate 2, in early state, in the 2nd volume and his seal as Lord Orford, type, in the 3rd volume. Each volume signed and dated., Photostat of vol.1 available, Unverified and incomplete transcripts of v. 1 (1759) and v.2 (1771)., and Two volumes in green vellum; one in red morocco with clasps. Bookplate 2 early state, in the second volume (1771); and seal as Lord Orford, type 1, in the third volume. Each volume signed and dated.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, Art, British, Art, Private collections, Historic buildings, Manors, Castles, Aristocracy (Social class), Homes and haunts, Politicians, Authors, English, Kings and rulers, History, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Book of materials, 1759, 1771, 1786
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
- Call Number:
- 49 2615
- Image Count:
- 73
- Abstract:
- : notes on books he is reading; observations
- Description:
- Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron of the arts, youngest son of Robert Walpole, first earl of Orford (1676-1745), Britain's longest-serving prime minister., In English., Available in pdf format, Two volumes (1759 and 1771) bound in green vellum, one volume (1786) in red morocco with clasps. With Walpole's bookplate 2, in early state, in the 2nd volume and his seal as Lord Orford, type, in the 3rd volume. Each volume signed and dated., Photostat of vol.1 available, Unverified and incomplete transcripts of v. 1 (1759) and v.2 (1771)., and Two volumes in green vellum; one in red morocco with clasps. Bookplate 2 early state, in the second volume (1771); and seal as Lord Orford, type 1, in the third volume. Each volume signed and dated.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, Art, British, Art, Private collections, Historic buildings, Manors, Castles, Aristocracy (Social class), Homes and haunts, Politicians, Authors, English, Kings and rulers, History, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Book of materials, 1759, 1771, 1786
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
- Call Number:
- 49 2615
- Image Count:
- 275
- Abstract:
- : notes on books he is reading; observations
- Description:
- Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron of the arts, youngest son of Robert Walpole, first earl of Orford (1676-1745), Britain's longest-serving prime minister., In English., Available in pdf format, Two volumes (1759 and 1771) bound in green vellum, one volume (1786) in red morocco with clasps. With Walpole's bookplate 2, in early state, in the 2nd volume and his seal as Lord Orford, type, in the 3rd volume. Each volume signed and dated., Photostat of vol.1 available, Unverified and incomplete transcripts of v. 1 (1759) and v.2 (1771)., and Two volumes in green vellum; one in red morocco with clasps. Bookplate 2 early state, in the second volume (1771); and seal as Lord Orford, type 1, in the third volume. Each volume signed and dated.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, Art, British, Art, Private collections, Historic buildings, Manors, Castles, Aristocracy (Social class), Homes and haunts, Politicians, Authors, English, Kings and rulers, History, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Book of materials, 1759, 1771, 1786