Horace Walpole: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1960, National Gallery of Art, Washington

Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis

Published by Bollingen Series, Pantheon Books, New York, 1960

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A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this biography of Horace Walpole, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work, one of an unspecified number produced for private distribution. A trade edition was published the following year.Inscribed by the author 'To John & Katherine, with love from Lefty, Christmas 1960'.Wilmarth Sheldon ("Lefty") Lewis ) was a collector and writer who devoted his life to amassing the largest single collection of Walpole's papers, prints, and books, which now resides at the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University.With seventy vignette and full page illustrations, including a frontispiece. Collated, complete.This discussion of Horace Walpole's life is XXXV, 9, of the Bollingen Series of A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, fine. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine. Seller Inventory # 919F65

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Title: Horace Walpole: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in...

Publisher: Bollingen Series, Pantheon Books, New York

Publication Date: 1960

Binding: Cloth

Illustrator: Not Stated

Condition: Fine

Signed: signed by author

Edition: First edition.

Book Type: book

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