Manuscript account book of the restoration of Strawberry Hill with Manuscript listing material for new edition of Walpole’s letters

by Countess Waldegrave

$14,500 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

London: 1857-1862. Two books. 4to. 150 pp. Original green cloth. Item #15091 Original account book of 150 pages, 22 lines each, on blue lined paper. Original green cloth, somewhat soiled; the interior in excellent condition. Walpole lived at Strawberry Hill for about fifty years until his death in March, 1797. When he died, the house was entrusted to his cousin, Mrs. Anne Seymour Damer, who, in order to cope with the high expenses of the building,

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