Fugitive pieces in verse and prose

Par Horace Walpole, qui signe l'épître dédicatoire. - Contient : "Verses in memory of king Henry the sixth, founder of King's college, Cambridge ; an Epistle from Florence to Thomas Ashton,... tutor to the earl of Plimouth ; Inscription for the neglected column in the place of St. Mark at Florence ; the Beauties, an epistle to Mr. Eckardt the painter ; Epilogue to "Tamerlane" on the suppression of the rebellion... ; the Entail, a fable ; Epigram on admiral Vernon, presiding over the herring-fischery ; Epitaph on the cenotaph of lady Walpole... ; a Scheme for raising a large sum of money for the use of the government by laying a tax on messagecards and notes... ; Advertisement... [to] the "History of good-breeding..." ; the World, by Adam Fitz-Adam, No. VI... [VIII, X, XIV, XXVIII, CIII, CLX, CXCV] ; a World extraordinary... ; the World"... [two papers, unpublished] ; "a Letter from Xo Ho, a Chinese philosopher at London, to his friend Lien Chi at Peking ; an Inquiry into the person and age of the long-lived countess of Desmond ; Inscription on a picture of the late pope". - Rel. mar. rouge à encadr., avec armoiries et devise de Walpole sur les 2 plats".