A Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill Collected by Horace Walpole [woodcut title] ... Mr. George Robins is honoured ... to sell the valuable contents of Strawberry Hill … fixed for Monday, the 25th day of April, 1842 [And:] Aedes Strawberrianae [And:] The Collection of Rare Prints & Illustrated Works, Removed from Strawberry Hill for Sale in London … in Covent Garden, On Monday, the 13th day of June, 1842.

London: George Robins, 1842.

Price: $750.00


About the item

Lithographic portrait, woodcut title. xxiv, [1]-86, [1, announcement of the Round Tower sale in London], [97]-250 pp., priced throughout in ink; Aedes Stawberrianae, 20 pp. list of printed prices and buyers; vi, 131 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary half leather and marbled boards. Spine toned, joints tender. Very good.

Item #306796

Later state of the celebrated Walpole sale catalogue.
At day 6, the text ends with lot 160 (lots 161-187 have been removed), there is an inserted announcement for the London sale of the books and prints from the Round Tower, and days 7 and 8 have been removed.
The London sale and printed prices are here present at the end.