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[Strawberry Hill Press]. An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710

[Strawberry Hill Press]. An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710

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[Strawberry Hill Press]. An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710

by Whitworth, Charles Lord

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Very good with scattered minor spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked, minor bumping to corners and extremities.
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London: Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758. Very good with scattered minor spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked, minor bumping to corners and extremities.. First edition from the famed press set up at Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's London villa.

According to Walpole's introductory advertisement, "Lord Whitworth's little treatise will throw considerable lights upon the formation of the Muscovite power, and upon the plans of the extraordinary genius, Peter the Great." This work was often used as evidence of the state of contemporary Russia and was "essentially an appraisal of Russia's growing military, particularly naval, strength, [and] a positive assessment of Peter [the Great]" Cross, Peter the Great through British Eyes (2000, pgs. 45, 76).

8vo. xxiv, 158pp., [1]. Hazen Walpole 48 (noting Walpole provided the 23-page advertisement). Hazen Strawberry Hill 5. Cross B16.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
[Strawberry Hill Press]. An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710
Author
Whitworth, Charles Lord
Book Condition
Used - Very good with scattered minor spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked, minor bumping to corners and extremities.
Quantity Available
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Publisher
Printed at Strawberry-Hill
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1758

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