Wisdom of Horace Walpole. With a Foreword [by Lewis Buddy III].
by WALPOLE, Horace
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Tamworth, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
(N.p): Privately Printed, 1905. A separate printing of "Detached Thoughts" from volume five of "The Works of Horace Walpole", 1798. Octavo, tan paper spine and corners, marbled boards, printed paper label on upper board, pp. 41. Limited to seventy-five copies on hand-made Italian paper and five copies on imperial Japan, is the first to be printed in the Bodoni type, especially cast for the University Press, Cambridge USA. Signed presentation copy, "To Will Bradley/ with cordial greetings from Lewis Buddy III/ Xmas 1905". With a Zamorano Club bookplate, noting the gifting of the book to the club by Bradley in 1957. This is one of the seventy-five copies on hand-made Italian paper. Many pages unopened, light soiling and rubbing to the covers, else very good..
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- Bookseller
- Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6222
- Title
- Wisdom of Horace Walpole. With a Foreword [by Lewis Buddy III].
- Author
- WALPOLE, Horace
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (N.p): Privately Printed, 1905. A separate printing of "Detached Thoughts" from volume five of "The Works of Hora
- Keywords
- WILL BRADLEY. FPBB
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Press and Printing;
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Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
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About the Seller
Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Tamworth, Ontario
About Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
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Glossary
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Marbled boards
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...