Octavo (20 x 14cm)
an ex-library stamp to FFEP
Norton described his decade-long labour as resembling "the cleaning of an old master"
The edition statements read in part ‘limitedto seven hundred and fifty numbered copies
Frontispiece and 8 full-page watercolours by Sophie MacCarthy
The Letters of Horace Walpole Agatha Christie Octavo (20 x 14cm)The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford. Edited by Peter Cunningham. London: Richard Bentley, 1891. Limited Edition, number 20 out of only 100 copies on hand made paper. Nine volumes, large 8vo, 26 x 16. 5 cm. Publisher's full vellum, gilt lettering with Walpole armorial device on upper covers, top edges gilt, others uncut. Half titles printed in red, titles printed in red and black with vignette, frontispieces and plates, folding tables.