Horace Walpole's Library (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521152198)

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.

Author: Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis
ISBN-10: 0521152194
ISBN-13: 9780521152198
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/08/2010
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.21d