Strawberry Hill Press
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The Strawberry Hill Press was established on 25 June 1757 at Strawberry Hill
, by the house's owner, Horace Walpole. He called it the Officina Arbuteana, and many of the first editions of his own works were printed there. The first works printed at Strawberry Hill, on 8 August 1757, were two odes of Thomas Gray
, The Progress of Poesy and The Bard. Through Walpole's influence Robert Dodsley
published in 1753 the designs of Richard Bentley (the youngest child of the scholar Richard Bentley
, and for some time a protégé of Horace Walpole) for the poems of Gray. Among the reprints were the Life of Lord Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
, Antoine Hamilton
's Mémoires of Philibert de Gramont, Hentzner's Journey into England, and Lord Whitworth
's Account of Russia.
Strawberry Hill House
Strawberry Hill is the Gothic Revival villa of Horace Walpole which he built in the second half of the 18th century in what is now an affluent area of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in Twickenham, London...
, by the house's owner, Horace Walpole. He called it the Officina Arbuteana, and many of the first editions of his own works were printed there. The first works printed at Strawberry Hill, on 8 August 1757, were two odes of Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray was a poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University.-Early life and education:...
, The Progress of Poesy and The Bard. Through Walpole's influence Robert Dodsley
Robert Dodsley
Robert Dodsley was an English bookseller and miscellaneous writer.-Life:He was born near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where his father was master of the free school....
published in 1753 the designs of Richard Bentley (the youngest child of the scholar Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge....
, and for some time a protégé of Horace Walpole) for the poems of Gray. Among the reprints were the Life of Lord Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury was an Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher of the Kingdom of England.-Early life:...
, Antoine Hamilton
Antoine Hamilton
Antoine Hamilton was an Irish classical author of near Scottish ancestry, who wrote in French....
's Mémoires of Philibert de Gramont, Hentzner's Journey into England, and Lord Whitworth
Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth
Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth GCB, PC , known as The Lord Whitworth between 1800 and 1813 and as The Viscount Whitworth between 1813 and 1815, was a British diplomat and politician.-Early years:...
's Account of Russia.