Shelfmark
TG
Author
Uniform title
[Correspondence. Selections]
Title
Horace Walpole's correspondence with Thomas Gray, Richard West and Thomas Ashton / edited by W. S. Lewis, George L. Lam, and Charles H. Bennett.
Publication, distribution, etc.
New Haven : London : Yale University Press ; Oxford University Press, 1948 (1970 printing)
Physical description
2 v. in 1 : facsims. ; 26 cm.
Series statement
(The Yale edition Horace Walpole's correspondence ; 13-14)
Note
Vol. 2 has title: Horace Walpole's correspondence with Thomas Gray.
Note
"The material published here for the first time includes the complete text of Walpole's brief autobiography, 'Short notes of my life, ' 'The Nicoll affair, ' and various passages from Walpole's unpublished manuscripts--his notes on Ashton, Lady Pomfret, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and his parody of a Roman guide-book."
Note
Publisher's dark blue buckram; spine title stamped in gilt; with dust-jacket.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Walpole's short notes of his life -- Thomas Gray, Richard West Thomas Ashton, 1734-1742. -- Thomas Gray, 1745-1771.
Provenance
Booklabel of Eton College Library and booklabel "Purchased from the John Waynflete Carter Memorial Fund".
Provenance
Partial booklabel recording gift from David Babington-Smith, removed.
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Lewis, W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon), 1895 - 1979 (Wilmarth Sheldon),
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Yale University Press publisher.
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Oxford University Press publisher.
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United States New Haven.
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England London.
Identifier
B49902