Dedication signed: Horace Walpole.

Includes index.

Published 5 Dec. 1758, but dated 1759. --cf. Hazen.

First edition was published at the Strawberry Hill Press in April 1758.

A continuation was issued entitled 'Postscript to the royal and noble authors', 1786.

John Adams Library incomplete: wanting v. 1.

John Adams Library copy appears to be missing frontispiece in v. 2 is a copy of the original music for 'The voluntary before the march.' Reportedly, the frontispiece in v. 1 is an engraving by Grignion depicting the presentation of Earl Rivers and Caxton, his printer, to Edward IV.

Some copies with misprint in running title on p. 74 of v. 1; other copies corrected at press.

Includes 'Supplement' on p. 154-250 of v. 2.

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hazen, A.T. Strawberry Hill, 3 (p. 36)

ESTC, T63206

Also available on microfilm. Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 6614, no. 21).

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894.