Portraits of Horace Walpole and Mary Berry.
WALPOLE, Horace.—Journal of the Reign of King George the Third, from the year 1771 to 1783. By Horace Walpole. Now first published from Original MSS . . . Edited, with Notes, by Dr. Doran. London: Richard Bentley . . . MDCCCLIX. 8vo, two volumes, cloth, uncut edges.
Portraits of John Wilkes and Francis, Lord North.
WALPOLE, Horace.—Horace Walpole's Marginal Notes, written in Dr. Maty's Miscellaneous Works and Memoirs of the Earl of Chesterfield. 2 vols. 4to. 1777. Communicated by R. S. Turner, Esq. The poſſeſſor of the volumes, [n. p., n. d.] 8vo, brown levant morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
[WALPOLE, Horace.]—Horace Walpole and his world. Select passages from his Letters. Edited by L. B. Seeley . . . with eight illustrations after Sir Joshua Reynolds and Sir Thomas Lawrence. London. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday . . . 1884. Square 8vo, red levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt top, uncut edges, by Matthews.
Large paper copy, with one hundred portraits and views inserted, including mezzotints after Reynolds, a large number of proofs before letters and on India paper.
WALPOLE, Horace.—See Pilkington and Fuseli.
WAR IN AMERICA.—An Impartial History of the War in America, between Great Britain and Her Colonies, from its Commencement to the end of the Year 1779. Exhibiting a circumstantial, connected, and complete Account of the real Causes, Rise, and Progress of the War, interspersed with Anecdotes and Characters of the different Commanders, and Accounts of such Personages in Congress as have distinguished themselves during the Contest. With an Appendix, containing A Collection of Interesting and Authentic Papers tending to elucidate the History. Illustrated with a Variety [13] of beautiful Copper-Plates, representing real and animated Likenesses of those celebrated Generals who have distinguished themselves in the important Contest. [and a map]. London: Printed for R. Faulder . . . M,DCC,LXXX. 8vo, blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt over rough edges, by Bedford.
WARD, Edward.—Nuptial Dialogues and Debates: or, An Useful Prospect of the Felicities and Discomforts of a Marry'd Life, incident to all Degrees, from the Throne to the Cottage. Containing many great Examples of Love, Piety, Prudence, Justice, and all the excellent Vertues that largely contribute to the true Happiness of Wedlock. Drawn from the Lives of our own Princes, Nobility, and other Quality, in Prosperity and Adversity. Also the fantastical Humours of all Fops, Coquets, Bullies, Jilts, fond Fools and Wantons, old Fumblers, barren Ladies, Misers, parsimonious Wives, Ninnies, Sluts, and Termagants, drunken Husbands, toaping Gossips, schismatical Precisians, and devout Hypocrites of all sorts. Digested into serious, merry, and satyrical Poems, wherein both Sexes in all Stations, are reminded of their Duty, and taught how to be happy in a Matrimonial State. By the Author of the London-Spy . . . London: Printed for T. Norris . . . 1723. 12mo, two volumes, citron levant morocco, gilt and mosaic back, gilt edges, by Bedford.
Eight plates drawn and engraved by J. Pine.