Horace Walpole's Correspondence with the Countess of Upper Ossory (The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volumes 32, 33 and 34) (Three Volumes)

Three volumes. lxvi, 412pp; viii, 588pp; viii, 502pp. Occasional illustrations. Set uniformly bound in deep blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 4tos. Cloth covers gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends and have the odd mild mark and signs of shelf wear. Two labels taped to spine of each volume. A little smudging on text block edges. Usual lending library markings on front endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Early leaves in the first volume show signs of over-compression. The complete 'Horace Walpole Correspondence' comprises 48 volumes. The three volumes offered here cover all his correspondence with Anne FitzPatrick, Countess of Upper Ossory between the years 1751 and 1797. Walpole was a writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig political.