one company will be admitted on the same day;--The house will
never be shewn after dinner, nor at all but from the first of
May to the first of October;--As Mr. Walpole has given
offence by sometimes enlarging the number o [Transcriber's
Note: of] four, and refusing that latitude to others, he
flatters himself that for the future nobody will take it ill
that he strictly confines the number; as whoever desires him
to break his rule does in effect expect him to disoblige
others, which is what nobody has a right to desire of
him;--Persons desiring a ticket may apply either to
Strawberry Hill, or to Mr. Walpole's, in Berkeley Square,
London. If any person does not make use of the ticket, Mr.
Walpole hopes he shall have notice: otherwise he is prevented
from obliging others on that day, and thence is put to great
inconvenience;--They who have tickets are desired not to
bring children."----XX. _A copy of all the Works of Mr.
Walpole that were printed by him before his death_, 1784,
4to. This brochure, which has been called "rare" in
book-auction catalogues, has been sold for upwards of two
guineas.----XXI. _Postscript to the Royal and Noble Authors._
MDCCXXXVI, 8vo. There should be, before the title-page, an
outline etching of "Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, appearing
to Christin de Pisan, &c., from an illumination in the
library of the King of France," which is exceedingly well
engraved. The work contains only 18 pages: and there were but
40 copies printed. The _Royal and Noble Authors_ were first
printed in 1759, 8vo. 2 vols.----XXII. _Essai sur l'Art des
Jardins Modernes_, par M. Horace Walpole. Traduit en
Francois, par M. Le Duc de Nivernois, en MDCCLXXXIV. _Imprime
a S.H._ par T. Kirgate, MDCCLXXXV. With an opposite title in
English, 4to. It contains 94 double pages, and every page of
French has an opposite one of English. Not printed in the
best manner of S.H. A copy of this book was sold for 3_l._;
at a sale in 1804.----XXIII. _Bishop Banner's Ghost._ Printed
by T.K. MDLCCXXXIX, 4to. On the first leaf is the following
"Argument." "In the gardens of the palace of Fulham is a dark
recess: at the end of this stands a chair, which once
belonged to Bishop Bonner. A certain Bishop of London (the
late Beilby Porteus) more than 200 yea
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