Horace Walpole, writer, politician and connoisseur
Subtitle: essays on the 250th anniversary of Walpole's birth.
By: Edited by Warren Hunting Smith.
Contributors: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.; Smith, Warren Hunting, 1905- ed.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797; Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England); Strawberry Hill Press
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
--Two part played by Horace Walpole and James Boswell in the quarrel between Rousseau and Hume; a reconsideration, by F.A. Pottle.--Walpole and Pearch, by H.W. Liebert.--Horace Walpole and Edmond Malone, by J.M. Osborn.--Appendix I. Walpole's purchases of porcelain, by F.J.B. Watson.--Appendix II. Items falsely labelled as Dr. Dee's, by H. Tait.--Appendix III. Walpole's annotations to Lady Mary's poems, by R. Halsband.--Appendix IV. Reply to Walpole's letter to Rousseau, by F.A. Pottle.
Table of contents: title: Horace Walpole and the politics of the early years of the reign of George III, by J. Brooke.; title: The only unadulterated Whig, by A.S. Foord.; title: Horace Walpole's political articles, 1747-49, by R. Sedgwick.; title: Walpole and the Duke of Newcastle, by G.L. Lam.; title: Walpole, pro-American, by B. Knollenberg.; title: Walpole's reflections on the revolution in France, by R.A. Smith.; title: Horatius Italicus, by W.H. Smith.; title: The Elizabethan Walpoles, by R.W. Ketton-Cremer.; title: Horace Walpole and the knight of the brush, by F.W. Hilles.; title: The earlier owners of Walpole's books, by A.T. Hazen.; title: A note on the prints at Strawberry Hill, by A.H. Mayor.; title: Walpole and the taste for French porcelain, by F.J.B. Watson.; title: The devil's looking glass; the magical speculum of Dr. John Dee, by H. Tait.; title: Walpole versus Lady Mary, by R. Halsband.; title: The theatre of Geo. 3, by C.B. Hogan.; title: Two unpublished fairy tales by Horace Walpole, by A.D. Wallace.