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A description of the villa of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford at

Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Published / Created:
MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]
Call Number:
49 2523
Image Count:
348
Description:
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.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A description of the villa of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford at Strawberry-Hill, near Twickenham with an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c.

3.
Letters written by the late right honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope ... to his son, Philip Stanhope

Creator:
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.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Dodsley
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life and Etiquette
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Letters written by the late right honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope ... to his son, Philip Stanhope ... : together with several other pieces on various subjects

4.
Letters written by the late right honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope ... to his son, Philip Stanhope

Creator:
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.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Dodsley
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life and Etiquette
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Letters written by the late right honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope ... to his son, Philip Stanhope ... : together with several other pieces on various subjects

5.
The King and his friends [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1770]
Call Number:
770.07.00.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The King and his friends [graphic].

6.
The salutation tavern [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 20th March 1773, New Bond Street No. 134.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
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., Mounted on page 89 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 23.1 x 31.7 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
J. Bretherton
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, Wigs, Bowing, Etiquette, and Plazas
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The salutation tavern [graphic]

7.
The salutation tavern [graphic]

Creator:
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.
Publisher:
J. Bretherton
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, Wigs, Bowing, Etiquette, and Plazas
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The salutation tavern [graphic]

8.
[Design for the facade of the chapel at Strawberry Hill] [art original].

Creator:
Chute, John, 1701-1776, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1776]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of the front face of the chapel at Strawberry Hill, with quatrefoils and other Gothic elements present in the design. A scale bar in feet runs along the bottom of the image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; attribution to John Chute from local catalog card. A note in W.S. Lewis's hand on mounting page suggests that Thomas Gayfere, the mason who built the chapel, might instead be the artist., Date of production based on John Chute's death date., and Mounted on page 172 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.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Elevations, and Facades
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Design for the facade of the chapel at Strawberry Hill] [art original].