An illuminating biographical study of the eighteenth-century English man of letters and patron of the arts Horace Walpole (1717-1797) was a collector, printer, Gothic novelist, arbiter of taste, and letter writer. In this book, eminent Walpolian scholar and collector Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis provides an unprecedented look at the life and work of one of England's greatest man of letters. What was Walpole really like? How to explain the contradictions and complexities of his character, behavior, and achievements? Why have so ...
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An illuminating biographical study of the eighteenth-century English man of letters and patron of the arts Horace Walpole (1717-1797) was a collector, printer, Gothic novelist, arbiter of taste, and letter writer. In this book, eminent Walpolian scholar and collector Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis provides an unprecedented look at the life and work of one of England's greatest man of letters. What was Walpole really like? How to explain the contradictions and complexities of his character, behavior, and achievements? Why have so many found him so baffling? In answering questions such as these, Lewis sheds light on Walpole's relationships with his family and friends, his politics, his writings and printmaking activities, and his correspondence. This richly illustrated book features portraits of Walpole, his relatives, and friends; sketches and manuscripts by Walpole; pages from books printed at Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press; and views and plans of Strawberry Hill, the house, its rooms and furnishings, and its grounds. Lewis's extensive annotations provide invaluable context to all the images.
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Near fine in very good jacket. The A.W. Mellon Lectures In The Fine Arts 1960, National Gallery of Art Washington. With 72 illustrations in b/w. 215pp. Short 4to, red cloth, slight edge worn d.w. New York: Pantheon Books, 1961. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. Bollingen Series XXXV, no. 9.
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Near fine. The ninth volume of the A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts, which are delivered annually at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Illustrated in black & white. xxvii + 215 pages. Tall 8vo, crimson cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Meriden: Pantheon, (1961). Author inscription to Wendell Garrett on front endpaper. Bottom right front corner is bumped. Otherwise a near-fine copy.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Large 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. xxvii, 215 pp, preface, list of 72 b&w illustrations, I. Family; II. Friends; III. Politics; IV. Strawberry Hill; V. Lord Orford's Works; VI. The Letters; index. Bollingen Series XXXV, No. 9: First Edition, 1961. "This volume is a study of the great 18th-century (1717-1779) English historian collector, printer, Gothic novelist, arbiter of taste, Whig politican, and above all letterwriter. He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenham, south-west London, reviving the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors. His literary reputation rests on the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), and his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest." Price clipped. Only the slightest wear to edges dj, else, Pristine. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine.
