Horace Walpole : the great outsider / Timothy Mowl
1996, 1st edition. London : Murray. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Signed edition. Item #428592
ISBN: 0719556198
Physical description; xi, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-264) and index. Contents; Contents -- Introduction: A warning to readers -- The first clear object of his wishes -- Brideshead half-visited -- Waiting for Lincoln -- Meeting at Reggio -- Horace in love-'Not the pleasantest volume of the Correspondence' -- A Batty Langley poet and a Batty Langley house -- A failure in human relations -- The casualties of war -- Otranto and the 'outing' -- Trauma, triumph and a retreat to France -- Horace as the constant lover -- The house, the garden, the man -- The women gather round. Subjects; Walpole, Horace 1717-1797. Walpole, Horace. 1700-1820. Art Collectors and collecting History 18th century. Authors, English 18th century ; Biography. Legislators Great Britain ; Biography. Nobility Great Britain ; Biography. Gay men Great Britain ; Biography. Art Collectors and collecting. Authors, English. Gay men. Legislators. Nobility. Politicians Great Britain ; Biography. Novelists, English 18th century ; Biography.
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