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Auteur(s) : Walpole, Horace (1717-1797)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : The Works of Horatio Walpole, earl of Orford. In five volumes... [-Vol. VI-IX.] [Texte imprimé]

Publication : London : G. G. and J. Robinson and J. Edwards ( ; Rodwell and Martin ; J. Murray ; C. Knight), 1798-1825

Description matérielle : 10 parties en 9 vol. gr. in-4° , pl., fig. et portr. gr., vignette gr. aux titres. (A. T. Hazen, HW Bibl., nos 27, 29-31, pp. 75-90.)

Comprend : I. [Fugitive pieces [in verse] ( : Verses in memory of king Henry the sixth, founder of King's College, Cambridge ; Epistle from Florence to Thomas Ashton,... ; Inscription for the neglected column in the place of St. Mark at Florence ; the Beauties, an epistle to Mr. Eckardt, the painter ; Epilogue to Tamerlane, on the suppression of the Rebellion... ; the Entail, a fable ; Epigram on admiral Vernon ; Portrait of John, earl Granville... ; "Portrait de Jean, comte de Granville, traduit... par M. le C[olon]el Drumgold" ; Verses prefixed to... the poems of Anna Chamber, countess Temple ; the Magpie and her brood, a fable...) ; the Mysterious mother, a tragedy ; Fugitive pieces [in prose] ( : Epitaph on the cenotaph of lady Walpole... ; a Scheme for raising a large sum of money for the use of the government by laying a tax on messagecards and notes [, "signé :" Descartes] ; Advertissement... [to] the "History of good-breeding..." ; the World, by Adam Fitz-Adam, n° VI... February 8, 1753[, "signé :" Julio] ; the World... n° VIII ; the World... n° X ; the World... n° XIV [, "signé :" Anne Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery] ; the World... nos XXVIII, CIII ; the World... n° CLX [, "signé :" Thomas Hearne, Jun.] ; the World... n° CXCV... September 23, 1756 [, "signé :" H. M.] ; a World extraordinary [, to Mr. Fitz-Adam, "signé :" H. M. ; to... lady Caroline Fox, "signé :" Vandyke] ; the World, by Adam Fitz-Adam [two papers, unpublished] ; a Letter from Xo Ho, a Chinese philosopher at London, to his friend Lien Chi, at Peking ; an Inquiry into the person and age of the long-lived countess of Desmond ; Inscription on a picture of the late pope... Benedict XIV ; Advertisement to Paul Hentzner's "Account of England" in the year 1598 ; Advertisement to lord Whitworth's "Account of Russia, as it was in the year 1710" ; Advertisement to "the Mistakes, or the Happy resentment", a comedy by Henry, lord Hyde and Cornbury ; Advertisement to the "Life of Edward, lord Herbert of Cherbury, written by himself" ; Advertisement to a "Catalogue and description of king Charles the first's capital collection of pictures..." ; Advertisement to a "Catalogue of the collection of pictures, etc., belonging to king James the second" ; Advertisement to a "Catalogue of the curious collection of pictures of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham") ; A Catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England, with lists of their works (with Supplements and "indices").] ; II. [The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic story ; an Account of the giants lately discovered, in a letter to a friend in the country ; Historic doubts on the life and reign of King Richard the third ; Supplement to the Historic doubts... with remarks on some answers that have been made to that work ; a Reply to the Observations of the Rev. Dr. Milles,... on the Wardrobe account of 1483, etc. ; Short observations on the remarks of the Rev. Mr. Masters on the Historic doubts... ; Post-script to my Historic doubts... ; "Aedes Walpolianae", or a Description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk, the seat of... sir Robert Walpole, earl of Orford ; a Sermon on painting, preached... at Houghton, 1742 ; Nature will prevail, a moral entertainment, in 1 act ; Thoughts on tragedy in three letters to Robert Jephson,... ; Thoughts on comedy, written in 1775 and 1776 ; Detection of a late forgery called "Testament politique du chevalier Robert Walpoole" ; the Life of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Baker of St. John's college in Cambridge, written in 1778 ; Account of my conduct relative to the places I hold under government and towards ministers ; a Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole at Strawberry-Hill... ; Strawberry-Hill, a ballad by William Pulteney,... ; List of the books printed at Strawberry-Hill ; On modern gardening ; a Counter address to the public on the late dismission of a general officer (general Conway).] ; III. [Anecdotes of painting.] ; IV. [A Catalogue of engravers ; the Life of Mr. George Vertue ; List of Vertue's works ; Dedication to the fourth volume of the Anecdotes of painting and Appendix ; a Letter to the editor of the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton, with Appendix ; Advertisement relative to the papers left for publication on the subject of Chatterton ; an Ode modernized from Chatterton ; Three original letters from Chatterton to Mr. Walpole ; Mr. Walpole's Letter to Chatterton on his re-demanding his manuscripts ; Lord Oxford's Last declaration respecting Chatterton ; Remarks on a letter signed "Scrutator" which appeared in the "Cambridge chronicle" of June 16th 1792 ; a Narrative of what passed relative to the quarrel of Mr. David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as far as Mr. Horace Walpole was concerned in it ; Letters which passed between David Hume,... and... Horace Walpole relative to Rousseau ; Reminiscences written in 1788, for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes B-y ; Hieroglyphic tales ; Miscellaneous pieces in prose ( : a Parody of lord Chesterfield's letters to his son : the New whole duty of woman, in a series of letters from a mother to a daughter, being a counterpart to the earl of Chesterfield's "System of education" ; General criticism on Dr. Johnson's writings ; Strange occurences, being a Continuation of Baker's chronicle ; Detached thoughts) ; Miscellaneous verses ( : the Funeral of the lioness, a fable imitated from La Fontaine ; Verses written in 1750 ; the Parish register of Twickenham ; Countess Temple appointed poet laureate to the king of the fairies ; "Portrait de Mme la marquise Du Deffand" ; To Lady - when about five years old, with a present of shells ; the Three Vernons ; Epitaph on two pipingbullfinches of lady Ossory's... ; a Card to lady Blandford ; the Advice, a song ; a Song ; To love ; To lady C - ) ; Prologues and epilogues ( : Prologue to the Mysterious mother ; Epilogue to be spoken by Mrs. Clive ; Epilogue, spoken by Mrs. Clive on her quitting the stage... ; Inscription under a vase erected in the garden of... Mrs. Catherine Clive... ; Epilogue to "Braganza"... ; Epilogue to "The Times", a comedy by Mrs. Griffith...) ; Epigrams ( : On the new archbishop of Canterbury... ; Left on the duchess of Queensberry's toilet... ; On the translation of Anacreon) ; Riddles ( : To-day ; a Looking-glass ; a Sun-dial ; the Press at Strawberry-Hill to Miss Mary and Miss Agnes - ; the Press at Strawberry-Hill to his R. H. William, duke of Clarence... ; "Epitaphium vivi auctoris"...) ; Letters from... Horace Walpole to Richard West,... from the year 1735 to the year 1742, with some letters in answer from Mr. West ; Index of the names of engravers, ranged according to the times in which they lived ; ranged alphabetically.] ; V. [Letters from... Horace Walpole to... Henry Seymour Conway, from the year 1740 to the year 1795 ; Letters from... Horace Walpole to Richard Bentley,... from the year 1752 to the year 1756 ; Letters from... Horace Walpole to Thomas Gray, from the year 1753 to the year 1768, with some letters in answer from Mr. Gray ; Letters from Thomas Gray to... Horace Walpole ; Letters from... Horace Walpole to John Chute,... from the year 1753 to the year 1771 ; Letters from... Horace Walpole to the earl of Strafford, from the year 1756 to the year 1790 ; Letters from... Horace Walpole... to... Mary Lepel, lady Hervey, from the year 1758 to the year 1766 ; Letters from... Horace Walpole to Caroline Campbell, countess dowager of Ailesbury, from the year 1760 to the year 1779 ; Letters from... Horace Walpole to Mrs. H. More, from the year 1784 to the year 1796 ; Miscellaneous letters (to and from Voltaire ; to George Montagu ; to M. Élie de Beaumont, etc...).] ; VI. Letters from... Horace Walpole to the Rev. William Cole and others [, George Birch, Henry Etough, Michael Lort], from the year 1745 to the year 1782, now first published from the originals. - Letters from... Horace Walpole to George Montagu,... from the year 1736 to the year 1770, now first published from the originals in the possession of the editor. [-Names of persons mentioned in the foregoing letters.] - 1818. (A. T. Hazen, "HW Bibl.", nos 29-30, pp. 87-90.) (Édité par John Martin. - Réunies sous une p. de titre commune, portant "The Works... in six volumes, vol. VI", les 2 parties ont chacune leur p. de titre propre et ont fait l'objet d'éditions séparées. Voir au paragraphe "Correspondance", des ex. de ces éditions séparées. - Le titre de départ et le titre courant de la 2e partie portent par erreur : "Letters between... Horace Walpole and George Montagu".) ; VII[-VIII]. Memoires of the last ten years of the reign of George the second, by Horace Walpole,... from the original mss. In two volumes... - 1822. (A. T. Hazen, "HW Bibl.", n° 32, pp. 93-95.) (Édité par lord Holland. - Chaque volume possède une double p. de titre, la 1re correspondant aux volumes VII et VIII des "Works"..., la 2e correspondant aux "Memoires of the last ten years"... mêmes, destinés à être publiés isolément et dont cette édition constitue l'édition originale.) ; IX. Letters from... Horace Walpole to the earl of Hertford, during his lordship's embassy in Paris, to which are added Mr. Walpole's letters to the Rev. Henry Zouch. - 1825. (A. T. Hazen, "HW Bibl.", n° 31, pp. 91-92.) (Édité par John Wilson Crocker. - Possède, comme les vol. VI, VII et VIII, une double p. de titre, la 1re correspondant au vol. IX des "Works"..., la 2e correspondant aux lettres à Hertford, destinées également à être publiées isolément.)

Note(s) : Les 2 ouvrages de A. T. Hazen, "A Bibliography of Horace Walpole", 1948 et "A Bibliography of the Strawberry-Hill press"..., 1942, sont les ouvrages de référence constamment cités dans le cours de cet article ; on s'y référera sous les formes : "A. T. Hazen, HW Bibl.", pour le 1er ouvrage, et "A. T. Hazen, SH Bibl.", pour le 2e. - D'après A. T. Hazen, "H W Bibl.", n° 27, pp. 75-85, les 5 premiers volumes furent publiés, en 1798, sous la responsabilité de Robert Berry, par sa fille Mary Berry ; ils furent complétés de 1818 à 1825 par 4 volumes publiés par différents éditeurs, et décrits au dépouillement. - Les ex. des 5 premiers vol., ici catalogués, appartiennent à la 2e impression

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