Wisdom of Horace Walpole
Subtitle: with a foreword
Publisher: Kirgate Press
Published: 1905
Place of publication: Canton, Pa.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 41
Other titles: Wisdom of Walpole
Notes: "Privately printed."

Foreword by Lewis Buddy; signed in letterpress "L.B. III."

"Kirgate Press edition"--Verso of title page.

"The contents of this small reprint originally appeared in volume five of 'The Works of Horace Walpole' (1798), under head of 'Detached Thoughts'"--Foreword.

"This volume, limited to seventy-five copies on hand-made Italian paper, and five copies on imperial Japan, is the first to be printed in the Bodoni type especially cast for the University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A."--Verso title page.

Typography by Lewis Buddy.

Hazen, A.T. ^Walpole, p. 83

Purchase; Brattle Book Shop; 24 September 2002; 2002HP-168; A. Lowell fd., Hofer Trust fd.; Bought with *2002HP-1.

From the library of University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

One of 75 copies; limitation statement signed by Lewis Buddy, III.

Bound in original half Japanese vellum and marbled boards, with printed paper label on front cover.