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Horace Walpole's Library
Overview
Originally published in 1958, and based on The Sandars Lectures for 1957, this volume provides a historical study of the library belonging to eighteenth-century man of letters Horace Walpole (1717-1797). The book is divided into three chapters: the first focuses on the library itself; the second on Walpole's reading; the third on the dispersal of the library following Walpole's death. This is a highly informative text, containing numerous illustrative examples, that will be of value to anyone with an interest in bibliography and eighteenth-century British history.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521152198
- ISBN-10: 0521152194
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: April 2010
- Dimensions: 9.61 x 6.69 x 0.21 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.38 pounds
- Page Count: 100
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