Hardcover
1924 · London
by Walpole, Horace
London: Constable And Company, 1924. Hardcover. Elaborately decorated front cover, gilt designs and lettering. Near fine. 306 pages. 25.5 x 16.5 cm. Seven colored engravings in an edition of 550 copies. With textual notes and early bibliography (Otranto) plus textual notes for the Mysterious Mother. Spine design is adapted from a portion of the engraved frontispiece to the same Description of Strawberry Hill. Title page of The Mysterious Mother A Tragedy notes "Printed at Strawberry Hill." Interior clean with wide text margins. Ex-library, the only representation on back cover -- library slip card.
(Inventory #: 24387)