inted in the middle size type; but neither the paper nor
typographical execution are in the best style of the S.H.
press. Only 250 copies printed.----XIX. _A Description of
the Villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert
Walpole, Earl of Orford, at Strawberry Hill, near
Twickenham, Middlesex._ With an inventory of the Furniture,
Pictures, Curiosities, &c. Printed by Thomas Kirgate,
MCCLXXXIV, 4to. This book contains 96 pages in the whole. It
was preceded by a small quarto impression of MDCCLXXIV:
which is scarce; and of which there are large paper copies.
The work entitled _Aedes Walpolianae_ was printed in
MDCCLXVII.

Plates to the edition of 1784.

1. Frontispiece, Gothic; motto on a scroll, "Fari quae
sentiat."
2. North Front of Strawberry Hill.
3. Entrance of Strawberry Hill.
4. View of the Prior's Garden, at ditto.
5. Chimney in the Great Parlour.
6. Chimney in the China Room.
7. Chimney in the Yellow Bedchamber.
8. Do. ---- ---- Blue Bedchamber.
9. Staircase at Strawberry Hill.
10. Library at ditto.
11. Chimney Piece of the Holbein Chamber.
12. The Gallery.
13. Chimney in the Round Room.
14. The Cabinet.
15. View from the Great Bedchamber.
16. Garden Gate.
17. View of the Chapel in the Garden at Strawberry Hill.
18. The Shell Bench.
19. View from the Terrace at Strawberry Hill.
20. East View of the Cottage Garden at Strawberry Hill. There
were only 200 copies of this edition printed.

The following may amuse the curious reader:

"Mr. Walpole is very ready to oblige any curious persons with
the sight of his house and collection; but as it is situated
so near to London, and in so populous a neighbourhood, and as
he refuses a ticket to nobody that sends for one, it is but
reasonable that such persons as send should comply with the
rules he has been obliged to lay down for shewing it:--Any
person, sending a day or two before may have a ticket for
four persons for a day certain;--No Ticket will serve but on
the day for which it is given. If more than four persons come
with a ticket, the housekeeper has positive orders to admit
none of them;--Every ticket will admit the company only
between the hours of twelve and three before dinner, and only