A Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill Collected by Horace Walpole
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A Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill Collected by Horace Walpole

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Strawberry Hill was a Gothic Revival villa in Twickenham, England, that served as the country home of Horace Walpole, a prominent 18th-century writer and politician. Walpole was a passionate collector of art, rare books, and curiosities, and his house was filled with treasures from all over Europe. This catalogue, written by Walpole himself, provides a fascinating glimpse into the mind of one of England's most eccentric collectors. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public ...