Essay on Modern Gardening by Horace Walpole. With a Faithful Translation into French by the Duke of Nivernois. A Reprint in Type Facsimile of the Edition Printed by Mr. Walpole at Strawberry Hill MDCCLXXXV. To Which is Added an Introductory Note by Alice Morse Earle

Canton, PA: Lewis Buddy III: The Kirgate Press, 1904. Limited Edition Reprint. Leather Bound. Very Good Minus. 94pp. Small quarto [25 cm] Bound in maroon leather (binder's label stamped "A. E. P" on the front pastedown), with ornamental gilt stamping on the backstrip and front board. Top edge gilt. Other edges deckled. Gilt turn-ins. Moire endpapers. Front board splayed. Joints rubbed. Subtle cracking and chipping to front joint. Lengthy gift inscription on the front flyleaf. Text in English and French. Walpole's influential essay on English Garden history. One in an edition of 300 copies.