Sales catalogue 550: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/99
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 550: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    STRAWBERRY “HILL OPRESS, The ‘ Strawberry Hill Press’? took its name from a private press set up in a cottage adjoining Horace Walpole’s house at Strawberry Hull, near Twickenham, in 1757. Walpole took for his sole manager and operator an Irish printer named William Robinson. H1s first issue was the “ Odes”’ of Gray, which he set up for the Dodsleys in 1757. These in due course were followed by a number of works of varying importance, several from Walpole’s own pen. All the earlier books were printed by his first printer, Robinson. But Robinson was dismissed in 1759, and, after an interval of occasional hands, was succeeded by Thomas Kirgate, who con- tinued to perform his duties until Walpole’s death. 1596 Execy on THE Deatr or Miss CaroLinE CampBeELL, daughter of the. Right Honorable Lord William Campbell. 5 pp., small gto. Wrappers. (Strawberry Hill, c. 1800). £1 Ios 1597 Jones (William). ‘Te Muse Recatiep, an Ode, occasioned by the Nuptials of Lord Viscount Althorp and Miss Lavinia Bing- ham, Eldest Daughter of Charles Lord Lucan, March vi, M.DCC.LXXXI. io pp., small 4to. Unbound, uncut. Strawberry Hill, Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1781. £3 38 1598 SpENcE (Rev.). A ParatreL; In the manner of Plutarch: Between a most celebrated Man of Florence; and One, scarce ever heard of, in England. Vignette on title. 8vo. Old morocco, g. e. Printed at Strawberry Hill by William Robinson, 1758. £4 Ios A comparison between Antonio Magliabechi end Robert Hill, published for the benefit of the latter.