PUBLISHED BY LEA & BLANCHARD; 



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 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 Dalrym- 

 ple ; Rev. William Mason ; Lady Hervcy ; the Earl of Hertford ; Richard 

 Bentley, Esq.; Earl of Strafford; Mrs. Hannah More; David Hume, 

 Esq., iScc., &c., with a splendid Portrait of the Author, in Four beautiful 

 Volumes. * 



" Besides its nnrivalletl beauty and brilliancy, the collection has the more important 

 merit of being the liveliest picture of manners, and the best epitome of political his- 

 tory 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."— JVoriAjJm. Review. 



" Horace Walpole may decidedly claim preeminence for ease and liveliness of ex- 

 pre-jsinn, tersenesf* of remark, .niid felicity of narration above almost all the epistolary 

 writers of Great Briiain."— Quarterly Review. 



" Walpole's Letters are full of wit, pleasantry, and information, and written with 

 singular neatness and sprightliness." — F.dinburg Review. 



"One of the most useful and important publication that has issued from the press 

 for the last quarter of a century. H is illustrated with notes, drawn up with con- 

 summate tact. Such a work, so enriched with all that is necessary to render it com- 

 plete, 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."— 7'Ac Times. 



" One of the very best works of its class, if not unique, in the En<;lish 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."- -Zriierary Oazctte. 



" 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 l7{n."—j9then(Eum. 



" 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."— 7)u6/in Evening- Mail. 



"Those who have never yet read Horace Walpole's letters — and they must he 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."— JV/omijig- Herald. 



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