Lot 1308 , Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscript 6 vols. 24 engraved portraits; 19th cent. half morocco and marbled boards, gilt

° Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscript 6 vols. 24 engraved portraits; 19th cent. half morocco and marbled boards, gilt decorated and panelled spines, gilt tops and marbled e/ps. 1840; together with the following letter series - uniformly bound with the above; Letters of Horace Walpole....to Sir Horace Mann.....now first published from the original mss....4 vols. 7 engraved portraits 1843-44; The Correspondence of Horace Walpole.... and the Rev. William Mason. Edited, with notes, by the Rev. J. Mitford. 2 vols. 1851; Letters Addressed to the Countess of Ossory... now first printed from the original mss. Edited, with notes, by the Rt. Hon. R. Vernon Smith....2nd edition, 2 vols. 2 portraits and a text engraving 1848.

£100-160

Condition:
Bndgs with only sl. wear, good looking set, mostly clean inside. Walpole - vol. 5 half title, vol.6 5 advt.pp. at end; Mann - neat indelible stamp foot of title vol. 4 (Islington Literary and Scientific Soc.) and some plt. verses, some sl. intermittent spotting, but good overall - these 4 vols. with 'new series' lettered on spines; Ossory has a new 8pp. preface for this edtn. Overall a good looking set

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