1772.
Copies of Seven Original Letters from King Edward VI. to Barnaby Fitzpatrick. Strawberry-Hill. Printed in the Year M.DCC.LXXII.
Pp. viii-14. 4to. 200 copies printed. '1771. End of September, wrote the Advertisement to the "Letters of King Edward the Sixth"' (Short Notes). 'I have printed "King Edward's Letters," and will bring you a copy' (Walpole to Mason, 6 July, 1772).
Miscellaneous Antiquities; or, a Collection of Curious Papers: either republished from scarce Tracts, or now first printed from original MSS. Number I. To be continued occasionally. Invenies illic et festa domestica vobis. Sæpe tibi Pater est, sæpe legendus Avus. Ovid. Fast. Lib. 1. Strawberry-Hill: Printed by Thomas Kirgate, M.DCC.LXXII.
Title, 'Advertisement,' pp. i-iv; Text, 1-48. 4to. 500 copies printed. 'I have since begun a kind of Desiderata Curiosa, and intend to publish it in numbers, as I get materials; it is to be an Hospital of Foundlings; and though I shall not take in all that offer, there will be no enquiry into the nobility of the parents; nor shall I care how heterogeneous the brats are' (Walpole to Mason, 6 July, 1772). 'By that time too I shall have the first number of my "Miscellaneous Antiquities" ready. The first essay is only a republication of some tilts and tournaments' (Walpole to Mason, 21 July, 1772).
Miscellaneous Antiquities; or, a Collection of Curious Papers: either republished from scarce Tracts, or now first printed from original MSS. Number II. To be continued occasionally. Invenies illic et festa domestica vobis. Sæpe tibi Pater est, sæpe legendus Avus. Ovid. Fast. Lib. i. Strawberry-Hill: Printed by Thomas Kirgate, M.DCC.LXXII.
Title and Text, pp. 1-62. 500 copies printed. 'In July [1772] wrote the "Life of Sir Thomas Wyat [the Elder]," No. II. of my edition of "Miscellaneous Antiquities"' (Short Notes).
Memoires du Comte de Grammont, par Monsieur le Comte Antoine Hamilton. Nouvelle Edition, augmentée de Notes & d'Eclaircissemens, necessaires, par M. Horace Walpole. Des gens qui écrivent pour le Comte de Grammont, peuvent compter sur quelque indulgence. V. l'Epitre prelim. p. xviii. Imprimée à Strawberry-Hill, M.DCC.LXXII.
Title, Dedication, 'Avis de L'Editeur,' 'Avertissement,' 'Epitre à Monsieur le Comte de Grammont,' 'Table des Chapitres,' 'Errata,' pp. xxiv; Text, pp. 1-290: 'Table des personnes,' 3 pp. Portraits of Hamilton, Mdlle. d'Hamilton, and Philibert Comte de Grammont. 4to. 100 copies printed; 30 went to Paris. It was dedicated to Madame du Deffand, as follows: 'L'Editeur vous consacre cette Edition, comme un monument de son Amitié, de son Admiration, & de son Respect; à Vous, dont les Grâces, l'Esprit, & le Goût retracent au siecle présent le siecle de Louis quatorze & les agremens de l'Auteur de ces Mémoires.' 'I want to send you these [the Miscellaneous Antiquities] ... and a "Grammont," of which I have printed only a hundred copies, and which will be extremely scarce, as twenty-five copies are gone to France' (Walpole to Cole, 8 Jan., 1773).