The Letters of Horace Walpole Agatha Christie Norton described his decade-long labour

Norton described his decade-long labour as resembling "the cleaning of an old master"

Frontispiece and 8 full-page watercolours by Sophie MacCarthy

an ex-library stamp to FFEP

Originally published in 1949

some nibbling to extremities and a little loss to head of spine and head of front panel

The Letters of Horace Walpole Agatha Christie Norton described his decade-long labourThe Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford. Edited by Peter Cunningham. London: Richard Bentley, 1891. Limited Edition, number 20 out of only 100 copies on hand made paper. Nine volumes, large 8vo, 26 x 16. 5 cm. Publisher's full vellum, gilt lettering with Walpole armorial device on upper covers, top edges gilt, others uncut. Half titles printed in red, titles printed in red and black with vignette, frontispieces and plates, folding tables.