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Creator:
Strong, William, active 1821–1844
Title(s):
Strawberry Hill : a catalogue of a singularly choice collection of rare and valuable books in the various departments of literature : comprising early English poetry & plays : British and foreign history and biography : black letter and privately printed books : romances, jest books, songs, ballads, music, and treatises on music : a few highly-interesting manuscripts : many fine books of prints, coins, gems, &c. : miniatures, paintings, ancient carvings, tapestry : valuable original portraits of distinguished persons : together with some thousand of engraved portraits, &c. &c. : principally from the collection of Horace Walpole / by W. Strong, Bristol.
Additional Title(s):

William Strong's Strawberry Hill catalogue

Strawberry Hill

Catalogue of a singularly choice collection of rare and valuable books in the various departments of literature
Published/Created:
Bristol : J. Chilcott, Printer, 1843.
Physical Description:
xi, 188 pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait ; 21 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N8640 .N4 v. 1 no. 11
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1736913
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Engraved vignette on title page.
"Catalogues, Half-a-Crown each--Returned to Purchasers."--Price on cover.
Signatures: [A]², B⁸, b-y⁴, z².
BAC: British Art Center copy is not annotated. Number 11 of 34 auction catalogs bound together. The volume bound in contemporary quarter roan; with the armorial bookplates of the Earl of Normanton and Rupert Gunnis; with a manuscript index on the volume's catalogs on the front endpapers.
Subject Terms:
Agar, James Charles Herbert Welbore Ellis, Earl of Normanton, 1818–1896 -- Bookplate.
Art -- Prices -- Catalogs.
Art -- Private collections -- Catalogs.
Booksellers' catalogs -- Great Britain.
Gunnis, Rupert -- Bookplate.
Literature -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.
Private libraries -- England.
Rare books -- Catalogs.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) -- Library.
Strong, William, active 1821–1844 -- Catalogs.
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 -- Library.
Form/Genre:
Booksellers' catalogs.
Catalogs.
Engravings -- 1842.
Contributors:
Campbell.
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797, collector.
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