Shelfmark
Ie4.5.41
Author
Title
Hieroglyphic tales / Horace Walpole.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Elkin Mathews Limited, 1926. (Montagnola : Officina Bodoni)
Physical description
85, [2] p. ; 25 cm.
Note
Printed on mould-made paper, watermarked "CAB/M".
Note
"The first edition of Hieroglyphic Tales consisted of only 6 copies which were printed in 1785 at Strawberry Hill. The book was reprinted, with alterations and excisions, in Walpole's collected works edited by Miss Berry in 1798. The text here followed is that of the first edition. Some notes, written by Horace Walpole in his copy of the first-sheets of the first edition, now in the British Museum, have been added" -- colophon.
Note
"Of this edition 250 copies have been printed by hand ... with the original 12 point type Cuneo of Giambattista Bodoni by Officina Bodoni, Montagnola, Switzerland." -- colophon verso.
Note
Publisher's binding: boards printed in basket-weave pattern; title label on spine; in brown slipcase.
Provenance
Given to ECL by Nicholas Kessler; Kessler bookplate.
Provenance
Bookplate of Duff Cooper.
Copy-specific note
Previously I.Kes
Added entry--name
Bodoni, Giambattista, 1740 - 1813 type designer.
Added entry--name
Cooper, Duff, 1890 - 1954 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Officina Bodoni printer.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Montagnola.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B27125