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WALPOLE'S UNRIVALLED LETTERS:
THE ONLY COMPLETE EDITION.
THE
LETTERS OF HORACE WALPOLE,
EARL OF ORFORD,
CONTAINING
NEARLY THREE HUNDRED LETTERS,
Now first published from the originals, forming an uninterrupted series,
from the year 1735 to 1797; containing his letters to George Montagu,
Esq.; Sir Morace Mann; Richard West, Esq.; Lady Craven; Gray (the
poet;) Hon. H. Seymour Conway; John Chute, Esq.; Sir David Dalrymple;
Rev. William Mason; Lady Hervey; the Earl of Hertford; Richard
Bentley, Esq.; Earl of Strafford; Mrs. Hannah More; David Hume,
Esq., &c., &c., with a splendid Portrait of the Author, in Four beautiful
Volumes.
“Besides its unrivalled beauty and brilliancy, the collection has the more important
merit of being the liveliest picture of manners, and the best epitome of political history
that not only this, but any country possesses.”
—Quarterly Review.
“No general collection of the letters of Horace Walpole has ever been made which
will at all compare in fulness with the present work.”
—North Am. Review.
“Horace Walpole may decidedly claim preeminence for ease and liveliness of expression,
terseness of remark, and felicity of narration above almost all the epistolary
writers of Great Britain.”
—Quarterly Review.
“Walpole's Letters are full of wit, pleasantry, and information, and written with
singular neatness and sprightliness.”
—Edinburg Review.
“One of the most useful and important publication that has issued from the press
for the last quarter of a century. It is illustrated with notes, drawn up with consummate
tact. Such a work, so enriched with all that is necessary to render it complete,
is one of the most valuable that any lover of sterling English literature can
possess.”
—Sun.
“As a book of reference, this edition of Walpole's Letters must henceforth take
its place among the memoirs and histories of the time. As a book of gossip, it is
perhaps the completest work of the kind in the English language.”
—The Times.
“One of the very best works of its class, if not unique, in the English language;
a work full of information, full of anecdote, and full of amusement; equally fit for
the library of the scholar, the dilettante, the artist, the statesman, and the general
reader.”
—Literary Gazette.
“Walpole's Letters are unequalled in our language; delightful in themselves, and
a most amusing and instructive commentary on the history of parties, and of the
country, from 1735 to 1797.”
—Athenœum.
“It is the only complete edition of the incomparable letters of this `prince of
epistolary writers,' as he has been justly called; and the letters themselves are
arranged in chronological order.”
—Dublin Evening Mail.
“Those who have never yet read Horace Walpole's letters—and they must be still
in their teens—have much enjoyment before them; those who are familiar with his
style, including all who deserve to read, will here renew the pleasure they have so
often experienced.”
—Morning Herald.
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