New edition. Earlier edition attributed to Horace Walpole. Table of contents, dedication, advertisement. Frontispiece. Describes the writings of royal authors, noble authors, peers and peeresses, Scots authors, and Irish peers. Includes writers not in earlier editions. Covers rubbed and scuffed at edges and along spine. Bookplate on front pastedown. Front inside hinge cracked. Previous owner's name on title. Scattered foxing.