A Selection of the Letters of Horace Walpole

A smart first edition set of this illustrated collection of letters from English writer Horace Walpole. Complete in two volumes. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-five plates to volume one, and a frontispiece and thirty-two plates to volume two. Collated complete. A collection of selected letters from Horatio Walpole, better known as Horace Walpole, an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician. Edited by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, an English collector and writer who devoted his life to amassing the largest single collection of Walpole's papers, prints, and books. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with light rubbing to the extremities and the odd mark to the boards. Light fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed.