Author: SCARFE, NORMAN.
Title: Innocent Espionage. The La Rochefoucauld Brothers' Tour of England in 1785.
Description: Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1995. 0851155960. 1st edition. "Looking at England in the early months of 1785, covering twenty or even thirty miles a day and making detailed and intelligent notes at night, the two La Rochefoucauld brothers, Francois and Alexandre, and their tutor, saw landscapes still visible today; but the world of momentous industrial invention and optimism that they envied, as patriots, is one we can now only envy them for knowing and admire them for recording." Pp.xx/270, 62 black & white illustrations, signed to title page with gift message to half-title page, maps to endpapers. Blue cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

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