WALPOLE, Horace "Castello di Otranto" [Molini, 1795] Fore Edge Painting, 1st Edition

WALPOLE, Horace. Castello di Otranto.

London: Molini, Polidori, Molini and Co., 1795. First Italian edition. 8vo. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, gilt, all edges gilt, blue ribbon marker. With a fore-edge painting of Sudeley Castle, captioned on a flyleaf. Lacking the illustrations called for by Hazen; spine moderately sunned; joints worn with hinges starting but holding; corners rubbed with general edgewear and a few scuffs; scattered spotting to text. Good+.

Provenance: Selina Mary Hervey (ink ownership to flyleaf, bookplate beneath Rosenfeld bookplate); Rainald Knightley (bookplate); Maurice Rosenfeld (bookplate).

Hazen 17; Summers pp. 263–264.