Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill by Michael Snodin

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Title: Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill by Michael Snodin 
Summary: Horace Walpole (1717-1797), as the youngest son of the powerful Whig minister Robert Walpole, grew up at the centre of Georgian society and politics and circulated amongst the elite literary, aesthetic, and intellectual circles of his day. His brilliant letters and writings have made him the best-known commentator on the rich cultural life of 18th-century England. In his own day, he was most famous for his extraordinary collections of rare books and manuscripts, antiquities, paintings, prints and drawings, furniture, ceramics, arms and armour, and curiosities, all displayed at his pioneering Gothic Revival house at Strawberry Hill, on the banks of the Thames at Twickenham.

This timely and groundbreaking study of the history and reception of Walpole’s collection as it was formed and arranged at Strawberry Hill coincides with a planned restoration of this endangered house. Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill assembles an international team of distinguished scholars to explore the ways in which Strawberry Hill and its collections engaged with the creation of various and interconnected political, national, dynastic, cultural, and imagined histories. 
Edited by: Michael Snodin 
Publisher: Yale University Press. New Haven and London
Year Published: 2009
Edition: Original
Binding type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780300125740
Dimensions: 30.5cm x 25.5cm 
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SKU: VSS / 265 / H / 7285 / 5585
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Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Handling marks, rubbing to edges
Book condition: Very good. Handling marks, marks
Binding: Intact
Pages: 368 pages
 
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