Horace Walpole – 4th Earl of Orford and son of Sir Robert Walpole, the first British prime minister – established the Strawberry Hill Press in 1757. The Press was located in and took its name from Strawberry Hill House, Walpole's residence, an engraving of which featured on the books printed there. The Strawberry Hill Press was sometimes known by the Latin name, Officina Arbuteana. Walpole himself is now best known as the author of the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto.

Special Collections does not hold any genuine books printed at the Strawberry Hill Press, but it does have the following related items:

• Richardson, Jonathan. The Works: Containing I. The Theory of Painting II. Essay on the Art of Criticism, So Far As It Relates to Painting III. The Science of a Connoisseur. London: 1792. [title page has forged Strawberry Hill vignette]. ND1130 .R53 1792B
• Walpole, Horace. The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London: 1798. [title page has vignette of Strawberry Hill House]. PR3757 .W2 1798