The Castle of Otranto

Item author: Horace Walpole
Item date: 1791
Grant Value: 100
Item cost pre-decimal: 580
Item date acquired: 1967
Item institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London

Printed by Bodoni in a luxury binding , almost certainly commissioned by James Edwards of Pall Mall, by Staggemeier and Welcher. Citron morocco inlaid with black and red tooled in gilt. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR

Item Provenance
JR Abbey collection, sold at Sotheby's June 1967 (lot 2223)