⁂ The following list contains all the books mentioned in the Description of the Villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, etc., 1784, together with those issued between that date and Walpole's death. It does not include the several title-pages and labels which he printed from time to time, or the quatrains and verses purporting to be addressed by the Press to Lady Rochford, Lady Townshend, Madame de Boufflers, the Miss Berrys, and others. Nor does it comprise the pieces struck off by Mr. Kirgate, the printer, for the benefit of himself and his friends. On the other hand, all the works enumerated here are, with three exceptions, described from copies either in the possession of the present writer, or to be found in the British Museum and the Dyce and Forster Libraries at South Kensington.
1757.
Odes by Mr. Gray. Φωνἁντα συνετοῖσι—Pindar, Olymp. II. [Strawberry Hill Bookplate.] Printed at Strawberry-Hill, for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, MDCCLVII.
Half-title, 'Odes by Mr. Gray. [Price one Shilling.]'; Title as above; Text, pp. 5-21. 4to. 1,000 copies printed. 'June 25th [1757], I erected a printing-press at my house at Strawberry Hill.' 'Aug. 8th, I published two Odes by Mr. Gray, the first production of my press' (Short Notes). 'And with what do you think we open? Cedite, Romani Impressores,—with nothing under Graii Carmina. I found him [Gray] in town last week: he had brought his two Odes to be printed. I snatched them out of Dodsley's hands' ... (Walpole to Chute, 12 July, 1757). 'I send you two copies (one for Dr. Cocchi) of a very honourable opening of my press,—two amazing Odes of Mr. Gray; they are Greek, they are Pindaric, they are sublime! consequently, I fear, a little obscure' (Walpole to Mann, 4 Aug., 1757). 'You are very particular, I can tell you, in liking Gray's Odes; but you must remember that the age likes Akenside, and did like Thomson! Can the same people like both?' (Walpole to Montagu, 25 Aug., 1757).
To Mr. Gray, on his Odes. [By David Garrick.]
Single leaf, containing six quatrains (24 lines). 4to. Only six copies are said to have been printed; but it is not improbable that there were more. There is a copy in the Dyce Collection at South Kensington.
A Journey into England. By Paul Hentzner, in the year M.D.XC.VIII. [Strawberry Hill Bookplate.] Printed at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLVII.
Title, Dedication (2 leaves); 'Advertisement,' i-x; half-title; Latin and English Text on opposite pages, 1 to 103 (double numbers). Sm. 8vo. 220 copies printed. 'In Oct., 1757, was finished at my press an edition of Hentznerus, translated by Mr. Bentley, to which I wrote an advertisement. I dedicated it to the Society of Antiquaries, of which I am a member' (Short Notes). 'An edition of Hentznerus, with a version by Mr. Bentley, and a little preface of mine, were prepared [i. e., as the first issue of the press], but are to wait [for Gray's Odes]' (Walpole to Chute, 12 July, 1757).