Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press, founded in 1757, is the most celebrated of the early English private presses, unique for the importance of the books, pamphlets, and ephemera it produced. This illustrated study of the Press draws on a remarkable array of surviving images of the Printing House, many of them newly discovered and previously unstudied.
But more than that, this book provides an original and sustained analysis of Walpole's extraordinary literary endeavor, and of the complex variety of purposes that the Press fulfilled. The volume not only assesses all known images to discover what they can tell us about Walpole's Press, but also reveals that, quite unexpectedly, a large part of Walpole's Printing House survives to this day.
Distributed for the Lewis Walpole Library
- ISBN10 0300170408
- ISBN13 9780300170405
- Publish Date 15 August 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 13 September 2023
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 152
- Language English