[WALPOLE, Horace, fourth Earl of Orford].

A Catalogue of the royal and noble Authors of England, with Lists of their Works ... In two volumes. The second Edition, corrected and enlarged ...

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley ... 1759. 2 vols., 8vo., frontispiece of Earl Rivers and Caxton presenting their book to Edward IV, leaf of engraved music ‘The Voluntary before the March’ bound at the end of volume I (although intended as a frontispiece to volume II), first title-page a cancel as always (to correct the date); apart from a little foxing a good copy in contemporary polished calf (joints rubbed, labels and extremities of spines chipped). Second edition of a work first published at Strawberry Hill in 300 copies in 1758. Walpole himself read the proofs of this ‘corrected’ trade edition, published in 200 copies. Hazen, Strawberry Hill, pp. 36-7.

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