A Letter from the Honourable Thomas Walpole, to the Governor and Committee of the Treasury of the Bank of England. Strawberry-Hill: Printed by Thomas Kirgate, M.DCC.LXXXI.
Title, and pp. 16 (last blank). 4to. 120 copies printed.
1784.
A Description of the Villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford, at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex. With an Inventory of the Furniture, Pictures, Curiosities, &c. Strawberry-Hill: Printed by Thomas Kirgate, M.DCC.LXXXIV.
Title; 'Preface.' i-iv; Text, pp. 1-88. 'Errata, etc.,' 'Appendix,' pp. 89-92; 'Curiosities added,' etc., 93-4; 'More Additions,' 95-6. 27 plates. 4to. 200 copies printed. 'The next time he [Sir Horace Mann's nephew] visits you, I may be able to send you a description of my Galleria,—I have long been preparing it, and it is almost finished,—with some prints, which, however, I doubt, will convey no very adequate idea of it' (Walpole to Mann, 30 Sept., 1784). 'In the list for which Lord Ossory asks, is the Description of this place; now, though printed, I have entirely kept it up [i. e., held it back], and mean to do so while I live' (Walpole to Lady Ossory, 15 Sept., 1787).
1785.
Hieroglyphic Tales. Schah Baham ne comprenoit jamais bien que les choses absurdes & hors de toute vraisemblance. Le Sopha, p. 5. Strawberry-Hill: Printed by T. Kirgate, M.DCC.LXXXV.
Title; 'Preface,' iii-ix; Text, pp. 50; 'Postscript.' 8vo. Walpole's own MS. note in the Dyce example says, 'Only six copies of this were printed, besides the revised copy.' '1772. This year, the last, and sometime before, wrote some Hieroglyphic Tales. There are only five' (Short Notes). 'I have some strange things in my drawer, even wilder than the 'Castle of Otranto,' and called 'Hieroglyphic Tales;' but they were not written lately, nor in the gout, nor, whatever they may seem, written when I was out of my senses' (Walpole to Cole, 28 Jan., 1779), 'This [he is speaking of Darwin's Botanic Garden] is only the Second Part; for, like my King's eldest daughter in the 'Hieroglyphic Tales,' the First Part is not born yet: no matter' (Walpole to the Miss Berrys, 28 April, 1789). In 1822, the Hieroglyphic Tales were reprinted at Newcastle for Emerson Charnley.
Essay on Modern Gardening, by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry Hill Bookplate.] Essai sur l'Art des Jardins Modernes, par M. Horace Walpole, traduit en François by M. le Duc de Nivernois, en MDCCLXXXIV. Imprimé à Strawberry-Hill, par T. Kirgate, MDCCLXXXV.