Author: BOSWELL, JAMES.
Title: An Account Of Corsica, The Journal Of A Tour To That Island; And Memoirs Of Pascal Paoli.
Description: Second Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. (ii), xxii, 384; half title, illustrated title page, illustrated folding map (430cm x 270cm), small closed tear to map at tab, full leather binding raised bands, re-backed retaining the original boards, very good copy. London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry, 1768. The first edition of this work [3500 copies] was sold out in six weeks, and the second edition [also 3500 copies] was ready for sale a month later. The book was well received and is credited with catapulting Boswell to fame 23 years before his best known work, "The Life of Samuel Johnson" was produced. Such was the success of the book it is said that Boswell was referred to throughout his life thereafter as "Corsica Boswell".
Keywords: gea Travel Boswell Pascal Paoli Corsica
Title: An Account Of Corsica, The Journal Of A Tour To That Island; And Memoirs Of Pascal Paoli.
Description: Second Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. (ii), xxii, 384; half title, illustrated title page, illustrated folding map (430cm x 270cm), small closed tear to map at tab, full leather binding raised bands, re-backed retaining the original boards, very good copy. London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry, 1768. The first edition of this work [3500 copies] was sold out in six weeks, and the second edition [also 3500 copies] was ready for sale a month later. The book was well received and is credited with catapulting Boswell to fame 23 years before his best known work, "The Life of Samuel Johnson" was produced. Such was the success of the book it is said that Boswell was referred to throughout his life thereafter as "Corsica Boswell".
Keywords: gea Travel Boswell Pascal Paoli Corsica
Price: AUD 850.00 = appr. US$ 588.09 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 101569
- Book number: 101569