Author: Taylor, Catharine
Title: Letters From Italy To A Younger Sister
Description: John Murray, Albemarle St, 1840, 1st edition. Cloth, G. xii+310pp+2pp publishers adverts, Rebacked preserving the original lettering, new endpapers, cloth rubbed & worn, a fair copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ A series of 22 letters in which the author describes, at length, the sights & history of Italy.The author's trip begins in Geneva & travela to Italy via Mont Cenis. after a brief stop in Genoa Taylor makes her way to Florence via Pisa before continuing to Rome. Letters VIII - XXII concern the Eternal City. A sceond volume of letters was published in 1841.

Keywords: travel, italy, italian history, florence, rome