Horace Walpole

by W.S. Lewis

An illuminating biographical study of the eighteenth-century English man of letters and patron of the arts Horace Walpole (1717-1797) was a collector, printer, Gothic novelist, arbiter of taste, and letter writer. In this book, eminent Walpolian scholar and collector Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis provides an unprecedented look at the life and work of one of England's greatest man of letters. What was Walpole really like? How to explain the contradictions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691097909
• ISBN13: 9780691097909
• Release Date: May 1961
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.