Walpole, Horace, 4th earl of Oxford (cont*) 
..... (in: Howe, Walter. The garden as considered in 
literature by certain polite writers, with a critical es. 
say. New York and London, G, P, Putnam’s sons. The 
Knickerbocker press [c.l890] p.256-281) (Lib. Cong.; 
No. Bot. Gard.j Lindley Lib.) 
..... On modern gardening; an essay; with preface and 
bibliographical note by W, S. Lewis. New York, Yo\jng 
books, inc., 1931. 80 p, (Lib. Cong.; Boston Pub. 
Lib.; Harvard; Newark Pub. Lib.) 
..... [French] Essai sur I’art des jardins modemes, 
traduit en francois par M. le due de Nivernois, en 
MDCCLXXXIV. Strawberry-Hill, Imprim^ par T. Kirgate, 
1785. 94 p. (N. Y. Bot. Gard.; Boston Pnb. Lib.; 
Nass. Hort. Soc.; Brit. Mus.; Lindley Lib.; Bib. Nat. 
Paris; Bib. Soc. Nat. Hort. France) 
Has also half-title in English: Essay on 
modern gardening. 
Text in French and English; latter printed 
in italic. 
...— Essay on modem gardening. Essai sur 1’ 
art des jardins modernes, traduit en francois par M. Le 
Due de Nivernois en M.DCCLXXXIV. Imprime a Strawberry- 
Hill, par T. Kirgate, M.DCCLXXXV. 142p. (W.S,Lewis) 
Sig.U]-l8- 
Text in English and French; latter printed in 
italic. 
Lewis, 1931 ed., p.78-80, gives a full de¬ 
scription of this edition, which he says is un¬ 
recorded as far as he knows. Because the paper 
was watermarked 1788, and the type used was 
Fournier instead of Caslon, the only face used 
at Strawberx*y Hill, and because of the typo¬ 
graphical errors in the French version, Lewis 
inferred that the copy belonged to a pirated 
English edition. John Bell may have issued this 
edition, since in a letter to Lady Ossory on 
Feb.6,1789, Walpole wrote that Bell had cheated 
him "literally of above 500 1." on the last 
volume of the Anecdotes of Painting (the one in 
which the essay on gardening appeared). "Ac¬ 
cording to Mr. Stanley Morrison, Bell showed by 
the face he cut in 1788 his familiarity with 
certain characteristics of Fournier’s type." 
