?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
WALPOLE, HORACE. Strawberry Hill, the Renowned Seat of Horace Walpole. Mr. George Robins is honoured by having been selected . . . to sell by Public Competition, The Valuable Contents of Strawberry Hill . . . the 25th Day of April, 1842, and Twenty-Three Following Days. Mounted India-proof lithographed frontispiece portrait (foxed); wood-engraved additional title ("A Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill") * The Collection of Rare Prints & Illustrated Works removed from Strawberry Hill for Sale in London . . . which will be sold by Auction, by Mr. George Robins . . . the 13th Day of June, 1842, and Nine Following Days. Together, 2 volumes in one. 4to, contemporary 1/2 red morocco gilt, spine faded and scuffed, extremities rubbed; cloth folding case. Np, [1842]; [1842]
With lists of prices and buyers for both catalogues. De Ricci, pages 117-18. Bound between the additional title and frontispiece of the first catalogue is the uncommon 16-page pamphlet entitled Gooseberry Hall, the Renowned Seat of Sir Hildebrod Gooseberry. Mr Triptolemus Scattergoods has been highly flattered by having impropriated by Wildrake Gooseberry, Esq. to submit by the Process of Public Competition to the Public the Classical Contents of Gooseberry Hall . . . the 1st Day of April, and the 365 Following Days [etc.]. Np, nd. This is a contemporary satire consisting only of "Puffatory Remarks," the catalogue proper purportedly being too vast for inclusion.
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