Author: HUDSON, ROGER. (EDITED BY.)
Title: THE GRAND TOUR. 1592-1796. In Slip-Case.
Description: London. Folio Society, 1993., Among the writers who went on the Grand Tour are Robert Adam, Joseph Addison, William Beckford, James Boswell, Patrick Brydone, Charles Burney, John Boyle, Thomas Coryate, John Evelyn, Edward Gibbon, Thomas Gray, Lord Herbert, Sir Horace Mann, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, J.B.S. Morritt, Fynes Moryson, Samuel Sharp, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, Henry Swinburne, Hester Thrale, Horace Walpole, Edward Wright, & Arthur Young. 270 pages, including biographical notes on the authors. About 114 illustrations in colour and black & white. 2 maps. Lovely painting of a view of Rome reproduced on the cover, in colour. Contents near fine, no inscription or marks. Near fine cover. Cream colour slip-case is near fine. 25cm. x 17.5cm. 1993

Keywords: tourist Grand Tour James Boswell William Beckford John Evelyn Lady Mary Wortley Montagu


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