The Strawberry Hill Press and its printing house : an account and an iconography / Stephen Clarke
2011, First Edition. New Haven : Yale University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #393755
ISBN: 9780300170405
Physical description; 142 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some. color) ; 27 cm. Series; Miscellaneous antiquities ; XVIII. Miscellaneous antiquities ; no. 18. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-118) and index. Contents; "My abbey is a perfect cottage or academy" -- I print much better than I write, and I love my trade" -- Plagues with printers and gallantries of the press -- The printing house displayed -- Neglected and forgot -- Plans: the changing configuration for the printing house -- The printing house of the Strawberry Hill Press: an iconography. Subject; Walpole, Horace 1717-1797. Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England). Private presses England History 18th century.
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