The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford in 9 Volumes by Cunningham, Peter (editor) - 1877

Edinburgh: John Grant, 1906. Hardcover. Octavo; 9 volumes; G; Hardcover; Spine, blue with gold print; Boards in blue cloth with gold print, wear to spine caps and corners, light shelfwear, else clean and strong; Text block has gilt top edge, clean and tight unless otherwise noted below, frontispiece in each volume, "with sixty-four steel portraits" with tissue guards; CONTENTS: Vol. I. 1735-1746 (name in ink on front flyleaf, 2 notes tipped in at front flyleaf, cracked front hinge; clxi, 415 pages) - Vol. II. 1746-1756 (xv, 512 pages) - Vol.III. 1756-1762 (light warping; xix, 512 pages) - Vol. IV. 1762-1766 (xxi, 512 pages) - Vol. V. 1766-1773 (cracked front hinge; xxvi, 512 pages) - Vol. VI. 1773-1777 (cracked front hinge, light warping; xxiv, 510 pages) - Vol. VII. 1777-1781 (xxvi, 512 pages) - Vol. VIII. 1781-1785 (cracked front hinge; xxviii, 576 pages) - Vol. IX. 1785-1797 (xxv, 623 pages). Oversized order. Additional shipping and handling may be necessary for expedited/international orders.… Read More

John Grant, January 1906. Hardcover. Good. Good bright boards and spines with gold lettering and coat of arms to front cover; minimal bumping of spine ends and board edges; browned endpapers and some foxing to page ends and early and last pages; owner name written on inside front cover; will require extra shipping ex USA

London: Richard Bentley, 1857. Half Leather. Very Good binding. The Letters of Horace Walpole, complete in nine volumes. With frontispiece and additional plates, mostly portraits, in each volume. Text is reasonably bright. Library bookplate on the front pastedown, and library stamp and overlapping withdrawn stamp on the title page. Half dark green morocco over green cloth, with gilt lettering and decoration on the spine. All edges marbled. Very Good binding.

London, England: Richard Bentley and Son, 1891. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 9 volume set, 8vo. Edited, with a preface by Peter Cunningham. "Now First Chronologically Arranged." Volumes are 3/4 dark blue morocco, marbled boards, marbled inside covers and free endpapers. Five raised bands along spines. Ornate gilt border designs along spines, with gold titles in brown title boxes. The date 1891 is stamped in gold at the bottom edge of each spine. Frontispiece b&w portraits of Horace Walpole &c. opposite title pages, with bounded tissue in-between. Small stamp at upper left corner of front free endpapers of every volume: "Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, England, for Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc." Very minor shelfwear: very light rubbing along cover edges. Light spine fade. Some light tanning along page edges. Tightly bound with very clean and crisp pages. No marks. Volumes are in Very Good condition..