Strawberry Hill, the renowned seat of Horace Walpole
Subtitle: Mr. George Robins is honoured by having been selected by the Earl of Waldegrave, to sell by public competition, the valuable contents of Strawberry Hill, : and it may fearlessly be proclaimed as the most distinguished gem that has ever adorned the annals of auctions. It is definitely fixed for Monday, the 25th day of April, 1842, and twenty-three following days ...
Contributors: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797; Costello, Dudley, 1803-1865
Publisher: George Robins
Published: 1842
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England); Art; Art collections; Catalogs; Private collections; Art objects; Private libraries; Library
Other titles: Strawberry Hill catalogue; Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.; Catalogue of the contents of Strawberry Hill.
Notes: Added wood-engraved illustrated t.p. reads: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole Smith and Robins printers ...

Title on cover: A catalogue of the contents of Strawberry Hill. Signed George Robins.

"Smith and Robins, printers, King Street, Long Acre"--Colophon.

"Strawberry Hill" (p. vii-xx) is reprinted, with the illustrations by W. Alfred Delamotte, from an article by Dudley Costello in Ainsworth's magazine (Mar. 1842).

Hazen's Edition VI; cf. A.T. Hazen, Strawberry Hill sale catalogues, 1842, Notes and queries, 25 Jan. 1947, p. 35.

Engraved t.p. by Landells after a design by Delamotte.

Bound with: The collection of rare prints ... Strawberry Hill ... [Auction catalogue] 13th June, 1842 ...

Copy 1 on permanent deposit from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Copy 2 bound as K 5.