Bound. W.S. Lewis' notes. Extra-illustrated: portraits, prints, clippings., Bound with the Spoor copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill., and Title page in ms. Clippings mounted on 11 pages,with other clippings, and illustrations.
Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy available as a pdf., Red morocco by Clarke & Bedford. Bookplate 2 early state, and a copy of the 2d Strawberry Hill fleuron. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Bookplate of Samuel Putnam Avery., and Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy, with copious manuscript additions and corrections, some on added leaves.
The introductory advertisement signed: H. W., i.e. Horace Walpole., With comments by the Rev. Mr. William Cole., Signatures: [a]-b² A-C² D¹., Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy, with notes and initials., and No. 1 in volume labeled: Antiqui[ties].
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Edward VI, King of England, 1537-1553 and Fitz-Patrick, Barnaby, Baron of Upper Ossory, approximately 1535-1581.
Caption title., Not printed at Strawberry Hill., Publication information from page [2]., Written for the first performance of Mary Berry's play., and Mounted on page 18 with playbill for a Strawberry Hill performance of The fashionable friends.
Caption title., Not printed at Strawberry Hill., Publication information from page [2]., Written for the first performance of Mary Berry's play., and Mounted on page 18 with playbill for a Strawberry Hill performance of The fashionable friends.
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773
Published / Created:
1774.
Call Number:
Quarto 49 436
Container / Volume:
v.2
Image Count:
311
Description:
BEIN Z78 061t: Bookplates of Fletcher Fleming Rayrigg and Lawrence A. Waldron. This copy has bound in at end of vol. 2 two leaves. Additional notes which were prepared when the 4th edition was published, to supply former purchasers with notes that had been added. and Horace Walpole's copy, with many notes and marks. Modern half-calf (in boards in 1842). Bookplate 2 later state (in 1st volume). With W.S. Lewis's notes.
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773
Published / Created:
1774.
Call Number:
Quarto 49 436
Container / Volume:
v.1
Image Count:
296
Description:
BEIN Z78 061t: Bookplates of Fletcher Fleming Rayrigg and Lawrence A. Waldron. This copy has bound in at end of vol. 2 two leaves. Additional notes which were prepared when the 4th edition was published, to supply former purchasers with notes that had been added. and Horace Walpole's copy, with many notes and marks. Modern half-calf (in boards in 1842). Bookplate 2 later state (in 1st volume). With W.S. Lewis's notes.
Five oval portraits or caricatures. The larger, central one represents the King ; the four smaller ones members of the so-called 'Court Party.'
Description:
Title from item., Place and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Frontispiece to: The London museum of politics, miscellanies, and literature. London : J. Miller, v. 2 (1770), page 5., Temporary local subject terms: Nicknames: Mungo -- Nicknames: Jefferies (Ld Mansfield) -- Blacks -- Animals: Lord Holland as a fox -- Literature: reference to Volpone, or, The fox, by Benjamin Johnson, 1572-1637 -- Reference to George, 1st baron Jeffreys, 1648-1689., and On verso: W.S. Lewis's ms. note regarding Horace Walpole's comments on the politicians represented in this print.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Dyson, Jeremiah, 1722-1776, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
Title vignettes, engraved., While vol. 2 was published in 1752, some large paper copies are dated 1751., Two volumes bound in one; volume 2 dated 1751., Large paper copy., and Laid in before page 25: two unidentified leaves laid in, with drawings on rectos and versos of elevations, floor plans, and a sketch of a column, one in pen and ink and the other in graphite. On the leaves is laid paper with a J. Whatman watermark, dated 18[...]. The other paper is wove.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 20th March 1773, New Bond Street No. 134.
Call Number:
773.03.20.03+
Collection Title:
Page 89. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire contrasting British and Continental customs: a portly Briton bows to an elegant French or Italian man with a long queue apparently in a piazza."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher identified from street address., One line of text below title, in lower left: Macaroni & other soups hot every day., Temporary local subject terms: Taverns: Salutation Tavern Macaronies -- Bag wig -- Queue wig., Matted to 49 x 61 cm., Manuscript note in contemporary hand below plate mark: Mr. Blunt, Mr. Sharp were never engrav'd., W.S. Lewis's note on verso of print: Salutation Tavern, Margate St., London Past & Present, iii, 207., and Formerly shelved with the Bunbury Collection.
