Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 18th April 2024

Lot 1375

A CATALOGUE OF THE CLASSIC CONTENTS OF STRAWBERRY HILL COLLECTED BY HORACE WALPOLE

Estimate £150 - £200 | Hammer £403

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Description

A CATALOGUE OF THE CLASSIC CONTENTS OF STRAWBERRY HILL COLLECTED BY HORACE WALPOLE

GEORGE ROBINS, 25TH APRIL 1842 ONWARDS

with a lithograph frontispiece, engraved pictorial title page and with illustrations and bookplates throughout, with purchase prices and buyer's names inscribed in ink next to each lot together with alterations, amendments, annotations and additions, in its original printed wrappers; together with Chalcraft (A) and Viscardi (J), Strawberry Hill - Horace Walpole's Gothic Castle, published 2007 by Frances Lincoln Limited, London (2)

Provenance
From the collection of Phillip Allen (1938-2022).

PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.