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Title: Richard Bull's copy of A collection of the loose pieces printed at Strawberry-Hill
Dates (inclusive): approximately 1750-1801
Collection Number: 90524
Extent:
121 items on 257 pages in 1 volume
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Rare Books Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: An extra-illustrated volume containing 52 letter-press items from Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press, prints, portraits
clippings and select manuscript items pertaining to Horace Walpole and his circle, chiefly between 1750 and 1801.
Language: English.
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material,
nor does it charge fees for such activities.
The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the
researcher.
[Identification of item]. Richard Bull's copy of A collection of the loose pieces printed at Strawberry-Hill, The Huntington
Library, San Marino, California.
Purchased from the Lord Burgh sale, Sotheby June 28-29 1926, item 221, received from Maggs Bros., September 17, 1926.
Bookplate of Richard Bull.
Processing/Project Information
The letter-press items (including the two printed title pages) in the volume previously received individual catalog records
in the Huntington Online Catalog and are matched in the English Short-Title Catalogue(ESTC).
Items 90524:6, 39, 48, 51 and 53 were assigned call numbers by the ESTC staff, but were later determined to be out of scope.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader
Services.
Richard Bull's extra-illustrated copy of "A collection of the loose pieces printed at Strawberry-Hill". The original copy,
with a title page printed between 1790 and 1800 was intended to accompany various products of the Strawberry Hill press, and
each copy was unique. (Title page: 90524:1) Letter-press items collected under this title, including the printed title page
itself, have been identified by A.T. Hazen in "A bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press. Detached pieces", 1973, pages
149-25. Additionally Bull had his own title page printed: "A collection of the separate poems, and other detached pieces;
printed at the press of the Honorable Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill. Newport, Isle of Wight, Printed for J. Albin. MDCCXCI"
(90524:2). This copy is made up of 52 "Detached pieces" from the Strawberry Hill press. Bull's additions include: numerous
prints and portraits depicting Strawberry Hill and places associated with Horace Walpole or individuals in his circle, clippings
of poems, and manuscript items.
The majority of items are single sheets and have been mounted or inlaid on leaves (30 x 25 cm). Some items are interleaved
or laid-in. Items are also pasted in on the fly-leaves and on inside rear cover. Bound in red textured leather with grecian
style gilt border; edges gilt. Spine title: Detached pieces. Strawberry Hill Press.
The items are in their original order as bound.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance) -- 18th century.
Broadside poems -- Great Britain -- 18th century.
Portraits -- Great Britain -- 18th century.
Engravings (Prints) -- Great Britain -- 18th century.
Mezzotints (Prints) -- Great Britain -- 18th century.
Bookplates (Provenance)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Nobility -- Great Britain --Portraits.
Strawberry Hill Press (Tickenham, London, England)
Strawberry Hill (Tickenham, London, England)
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806, collector.
Kirgate, Thomas, printer.
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England), publisher.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797