Twenty-nine coloured plates, and numerous marginal illustrations.
No. 34 of two hundred copies printed.
WALPOLE, Horace.—A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, With Lists of their Works . . . The Second Edition, corrected and enlarged. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley . . . MDCCLIX. 8vo, two volumes, contemporary red morocco, gilt back, thistle border on the sides.
Frontispiece by Grignion.
Horace Walpole's copy, with his book-plate.
WALPOLE, Horace.—A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland; with Lists of their Works: by the late Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. Enlarged and continued to the present time by Thomas Park . . . London: printed for John Scott . . . 1806. 4to, five volumes, brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Holloway.
Large paper copy, with three hundred and fifteen portraits, duplicates of the regular series, proofs before letters, the variation of most of these plates, also proofs, the original engraving of the Duchess of Newcastle by Peter von Schappen, an India proof impression before all letters of the Lodge portrait of Horace Walpole, also two letters in the autograph of Walpole, one to John Pinkerton, the other to Dr. Ducarel, both referring to this book.
WALPOLE, Horace.—Portraits of Royal and Noble Authors Publish'd . . . by S. Harding (London 1798-1802) Royal 4to, half red levant morocco, Janseniste, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rousselle.
One hundred and forty-five portraits in semi-outline, and three from the British Cabinet by Adolphus.
These portraits must not be confounded with the series issued with the edition of 1806, for while most are taken from the same originals, some do not appear in the later issue.