Horace Walpole. ANECDOTES OF PAINTING IN ENGLAND (3 vols.) and A CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS, WHO HAVE BEEN BORN, OR RESIDED IN ENGLAND. Strawberry-Hill, [Twickenham]: Thomas Farmer, 1762-3. First edition. Leather bound with raised bands and gilt on spine, all edges stained blue. 4to; xiii, [1], 168, [22 appendix, index, errata]; [2], 158, [58 appendix, index, errata); [2], 155, [11 appendix and index]; [4], 128, 14, 20, [8 index]. ESTC T71274; T63208.

9 5/16 x 7 3/8 in. each

From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.

Horace Walpole was an art historian, politician, and author, and the owner of Strawberry Hill, a Gothic-revival home located outside of London. Using the notes of George Vertue, he created Anecdotes of Painting in England, with the first two volumes published in 1762 and a third volume along with A Catalogue of Engravers published in 1763. A fourth volume of Anecdotes was published many years later.

Overall fair condition. Boards scuffed, extremely brittle and fragile, with edges darkening, significant cracking at joints, corners bumped, losses to leather; with bookplate of Herbert G. Squiers on (2) paste-downs; interiors with staining from binder's glue, offsetting, toning and foxing, otherwise unmarked; vol. I with loss of tail band, vol. II and III and Catalogue of Engravers with detached boards, loose and detached pages, and split spines.