Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill by Snodin, Michael - 2009

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket which is clean and bright with rubbing to edges and minor wear including a 3 cm closed tear to the top front corner. Black cloth gilt. A few spots to top page edges. Contents clean without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. Published to accompany the exhibition, 'Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill', organised by the Lewis Walpole Library, the Yale Centre for British Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum and on view at the Yale Centre from 15 October 2009 to 3 January 2010 and the V&A from 6 March to 4 July 2010. xv, 368 pp. Foreword, Introduction, 16 Essays, Catalogue of the Exhibition, Appendices. Profusely illustrated in colour. Horace Walpole (1717-1797) grew up at the centre of Georgian society and politics and circulated among the elite literary, aesthetic and intellectual circles of his time. His brilliant letters and writings have made him the best-known commentator on the rich cultural life of eighteenth-century England. In his own day, he was most famous for his extraordinary collections of rare books and manuscripts, aniquities, paintings, prints and drawings, arms and armour, furniture, ceramics and curiosities, all displayed at his pioneering Gothic Revival house at Strawberry Hill, on the banks of the Thames at Twickenham. 'Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill' assembles an international team of distinguished scholars to explore the ways in which Strawberry Hill and its collections engaged with the creation of various and interconnected political, national, dynastic, cultural and imagined histories. Heavy/oversize book. U.K. postage at default charge but international buyers will be asked for extra. Enquiries welcome. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.