_Introduction to the
Classics_, vol. ii., p. 53. Kirgate the printer (recently
deceased) told me that uncommon pains were taken with its
typographical execution.----VII. _Anecdotes of Painting in
Englaud_ [Transcriber's Note: England]; MDCCLXI. four
volumes; _Catalogue of Engravers_, 4to., one volume. This is
the _first_, and, on account of having the earliest
impressions of the plates, the _best_ edition of this
amusing, and once popular work. It was reprinted in quarto,
in 1765; of which edition I believe 600 copies were struck
off. Again, in 1786, crown 8vo., five volumes, without the
plates.----VIII. _The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of
Cherbury_, written by himself. Printed in the year MDCCLXIX,
4to. Dedication of two pages to Lord Powis. Advertisement
six pages, not numbered. After this, there should be a
"Genealogical Table of the family of Herbert," which is very
scarce, on account of its being suppressed by Mr. Walpole,
for its inaccuracy. The life occupied 171 pages. "Mr.
Walpole," says the late Mr. Cole, "when I was with him in
the autumn of 1763, at which time the book was partly
printed, told me that either one or two hundred copies were
to be printed; half to be sent to the Earl of Powis, and the
other half he was to reserve for himself, as presents to his
friends; so that, except the book is reprinted by some
bookseller, privately, as probably it will, it will be a
curiosity. It was not published till the end of June, 1764,
when the honourable editor sent it to me.----IX. _Poems by
Anna Chambers_, Countess Temple. MDCCLXIV, 4to. This volume,
containing 13 poems on various subjects, is printed in 34
pages, with a large, but not very elegant type. Only 100
copies were struck off.----X. _The Mysterious Mother._ A
Tragedy, by Mr. Horace Walpole. Sit mihi fas audita loqui.
Virg. Printed at S.H., MDCCLXVIII. 8vo. No vignette on the
back. First leaf, errata, and "persons" [of the play.]
Printed with the small type on 120 pages; after which
follows a "postscript" of 10 pages. Only 50 copies printed.
An uncut copy was recently sold for 6_l._ 15_s._----XI.
_Cornelie vestale. Tragedie._ Imprimee a S.H. MDCCLXVIII,
8vo., 200 copies. The title-page is followed by a letter "a
Mons. Horace Walpole." A page of the names of the