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Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by WALPOLE, Horace
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London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1768. First edition. One of 1250 copies. Quarto. [xv], [1], 134, [1] Additions, [1] Errata and Directions to Binder. Two inserted plates. Bound in half brown morocco over red marbled boards. Spine compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Light rubbing to leather, some edgewear to right and top edge of front cover, foxing to preliminaries, light foxing to plates, else attractive copy. Horace Walpole (1717-1797), founder of the Strawberry Hill Press, was the most famous of Richard III's defenders. Historic Doubts..., is a landmark in the Ricardian controversy. He rose to the defense after the villainization of Richard by Shakespeare. Of Richard's infamous physical appearance Walpole wrote, "The truth I take to have been this. Richard, who was slender and not tall, had one shoulder a little higher than the other: a defect, by the magnifying glasses of party, by distance of time, and by the amplification of tradition, easily swelled to shocking deformity; for falsehood itself generally pays so much respect to truth as to make it the basis of its superstructures."
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