A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, with Lists of their Works. Dove, diavolo! Messer Ludovico, avete pigliato tante coglionerie? Card. d'Este, to Ariosto. Vol. i. [Strawberry Hill Bookplate.] Printed at Strawberry-Hill. MDCCLVIII.
---- Vol. ii. [Strawberry Hill Bookplate.] Printed at Strawberry-Hill. MDCCLVIII.
Vol. i.,—Title; Dedication of 2 leaves to Lord Hertford; Advertisement, pp. i-viii; half-title; Text, pp. 1-219, and unpaged Index. There is also a frontispiece engraved by Grignion. Vol. ii.,—Half-title; Title; Text, pp. 1-215, and unpaged Index. 8vo. 300 copies issued. A second edition, 'corrected and enlarged,' was printed in 1758 (but dated 1759), in two vols. 8vo., 'for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pallmall; and J. Graham in the Strand.' According to Baker (Catalogue of Books, etc., printed at the Press at Strawberry Hill [1810]), 40 copies of a supplement or Postscript to the Royal and Noble Authors were printed by Kirgate in 1786. 'In April, 1758, was finished the first impression of my "Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors," which I had written the preceding year in less than five months' (Short Notes). 'My book is marvellously in fashion, to my great astonishment. I did not expect so much truth and such notions of liberty would have made their fortune in this our day' (Walpole to Montagu, 4 May, 1758). 'Dec. 5th [1758] was published the second edition of my "Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors." Two thousand were printed, but not at Strawberry Hill' (Short Notes). 'I have but two motives for offering you the accompanying trifle [i. e., the Postscript above referred to].... Coming from my press, I wish it may be added to your Strawberry editions. It is so far from being designed for the public that I have printed but forty copies' (Walpole to Hannah More, 1 Jan., 1787).
An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710. By Charles Lord Whitworth. [Strawberry Hill Bookplate.] Printed at Strawberry-Hill. MDCCLVIII.
Title, 'Advertisement' pp. i-xxiv; Text, pp. 1-158; Errata, one page. Sm. 8vo. 700 copies printed. 'The beginning of October [1758] I published Lord Whitworth's account of Russia, to which I wrote the advertisement' (Short Notes). 'A book has been left at your ladyship's house; it is Lord Whitworth's Account of Russia' (Walpole to Lady Hervey, 17 Oct., 1758). Mr. (afterwards Lord) Whitworth was Ambassador to St. Petersburg in the reign of Peter the Great.
The Mistakes; or, the Happy Resentment. A Comedy. By the late Lord * * * * [Henry Hyde, Lord Hyde and Cornbury.] London: Printed by S. Richardson, in the Year 1758.
Title; List of Subscribers, pp. xvi; Advertisement, Prologue, and Dramatis Personæ, 2 leaves; Text, 1-83; Epilogue unpaged. Baker gives the following particulars from the Biographia Dramatica as to this book: 'The Author of this Piece was the learned, ingenious, and witty Lord Cornbury, but it was never acted. He made a present of it to that great Actress, Mrs. Porter, to make what Emolument she could by it. And that Lady, after his Death, published it by Subscription, at Five Shillings, each Book, which was so much patronized by the Nobility and Gentry that Three Thousand Copies were disposed of. Prefixed to it is a Preface, by Mr. Horace Walpole, at whose Press at Strawberry-Hill it was printed.' Baker adds, 'Mr. Yardley, who when living, kept a Bookseller's Shop in New-Inn-Passage, confirmed this account, by asserting, that he assisted in printing it at that Press.' But Baker nevertheless prefixes an asterisk to the title, which implies that it was 'not printed for Mr. Walpole,' and this probably accounts for Richardson's name on the title-page. By the subscription list, the Hon. Horace Walpole took 21 copies, David Garrick, 38, and Mr. Samuel Richardson, of Salisbury Court, 4. All Walpole says is, 'About the same time [1758] Mrs. Porter published [for her benefit] Lord Hyde's play, to which I had written the advertisement' (Short Notes).
A Parallel; in the Manner of Plutarch: between a most celebrated Man of Florence; and One, scarce ever heard of, in England. By the Reverend Mr. Spence. '—Parvis componere magna'—Virgil. [Portrait in circle of Magliabecchi.] Printed at Strawberry-Hill, by William Robinson; and Sold by Messieurs Dodsley, at Tully's-Head, Pall-Mall; for the Benefit of Mr. Hill. M.DCC.LVIII.
Title; Text, pp. 4-104. Sm. 8vo. 700 copies printed. '1759. Feb. 2nd. I published Mr. Spence's Parallel of Magliabecchi and Mr. Hill, a tailor of Buckingham; calculated to raise a little sum of money for the latter poor man. Six hundred copies were sold in a fortnight, and it was reprinted in London' (Short Notes). 'Mr. Spence's Magliabecchi is published to-day from Strawberry; I believe you saw it, and shall have it; but 'tis not worth sending you on purpose' (Walpole to Chute, 2 Feb., 1759).