Buy this book on-line Dobson, Austin : Horace Walpole. A Memoir. With an Appendix of Books printed at the Strawberry Hill Press(London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1890)
Limited edition printing, this copy being number 379 of the 425 printed on Dickinson paper. Illustrations by Percy and Léon Moran. Royal 8vo; cloth-backed papered boards, with gilt lettering to spine; pp. 370; line drawings, plans and head-pieces. Binding rubbed, bumped, and slightly bowed and cocked; spine darkened, and frayed at ends; backstrip splitting against top third of lower joint; cover overall a little soiled; ex libris of Felix Wright to front pastedown; pages somewhat rippled; occasional spotting. Good. "To the members of the Grolier Club, this memoir of a bygone book-lover, printer, and man-of-letters is cordially inscribed." There could be no better introduction to the Strawberry Hill Press than this, a limited edition publication about the archetypal 'private press' and its creator. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Dobson, Austin : Horace Walpole. A Memoir. With an Appendix of Books printed at the Strawberry Hill Press. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri rari, first editions, livres d'occasion, livres rares and out of print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |