Shelfmark
Cg.2.4.04
Additional shelfmark
[Another copy:] Iaa3.5.07
Author
Title
The castle of Otranto, a Gothic story. Translated by William Marshall, Gent. from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto ...
Edition
The sixth edition.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, bookseller of London, 1791.
Physical description
[4], XXXII, 246p, plates ; 4to.
Note
Onuphrio Muralto = Horace Walpole.
Note
Edition conceived and paid for by James Edwards; half-title reading "Edwards's edition of The castle of Otranto.".
Note
Title-page second state.
Note
Includes two plates of the castle, often bound with this edition, though not part of Bodoni's original collation (Hazen's Plates A and B).
Citation/references note
Hazen. Walpole, 17 (p.56); ESTC T131070
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 4400, no. 03).
Additional physical form available
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Provenance
[Cg.2.4.04] Storer bequest label dated 1800; bequeathed to Eton by Anthony Morris Storer in 1799.
Provenance
[Iaa3.5.07] Armorial bookplate of Eton College School Library recording donation: "Major General Villiers Hatton" (typed).
Provenance
[Iaa3.5.07] Armorial bookplate of Villiers Hatton.
Provenance
[Iaa3.5.07] Ms. bookseller's note and codes in pencil.
Provenance
[Iaa3.5.07] Ms. inscription: "Maria Plowes 1846".
Binding
[Cg.2.4.04] 18th century blue, gold-tooled morocco. Border of foliage tool. ?By H. Walther.
Binding
[Iaa3.5.07] Late 18th century vellum with gilt tooling on boards, spine, and turn-ins, green painted decoration on boards and spine, gilt lettering on spine, and marbled endpapers ; 19th century fore-edge painting of David Garrick's house and gilt edges.
Copy-specific note
[Cg.2.4.04] Extra-illustrated with plates produced in 1793 by E. and S. Harding (trimmed and mounted).
Subject
English literature.
Added entry--name
Storer, Anthony Morris, 1746 - 1799 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 former owner.
Added entry--name
Plowes, Maria former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
Italy Parma.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B14040