1891 The Letters of Horace Walpole Fourth Earl of Orford

Description

Folding Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Limited Edition, Signed Binding

A limited edition, limited to one hundred copies, of which this is numbered ninety.

Complete in nine volumes.

Bound by the Collector's Book Club.

The collected letters of Horace Walpole, this edition being the first time the letters were chronologically arranged. 

Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, four folding plates, and six plates.

Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece, and six plates.

Volume III illustrated with a frontispiece, and six plates.

Volume IV illustrated with a frontispiece, and six plates.

Volume V illustrated with a frontispiece, and six plates.

Volume VI illustrated with a frontispiece, and five plates.

Volume VII illustrated with a frontispiece, and six plates.

Volume VIII illustrated with a frontispiece, and seven plates.

Volume IX illustrated with a frontispiece, and seven plates.

Walpole's letters, totaling 2,665 dated from 1735 to 1797, provide a significant account of society and politics of the Georgian era. 

His correspondents include Voltaire, William Pitt, David Hume, Hannah More, the Earl of Buchan, Sir David Dalrymple, Reverend William Mason, Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Robert Jephson, George Selwyn, and more. 

Walpole was an eminent writer, art historian, antiquarian, and Whig politician. His house, Strawberry Hill, is noted for its revival of the Gothic architectural style. He was the author of the first Gothic novel, 'The Castle of Otranto'.

Edited by Peter Cunningham. 

Collated, complete.