ISBN: 9780773500907 - Letters from the Grand Tour (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Tape repair at head of dust jacket and spine, else VG. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Dust Jacket spine sunned. Slightly bumped. Dust jacket in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Europe; Travel. ISBN: 0773500901. ISBN/EAN: 9780773500907. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 453. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Tape repair at head of dust jacket and spine, else VG. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. xii + 496 pp, introduction, notes onthe text, letters from 3 tours of Europe with footnotes, appendix 1-9, index. 7.25" x 10" russet cloth boards, with dimmed spine titles, inlight brown illustrated DJ, unclipped, in acetate protector. Binding tight and square, pages clean, unmarked, paper well-preserved. Magic marker lines on bottom edge. . Size: Small Quarto. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine (-). 1st. (CAD) First edition with the year 1975 to the title page and copyright page, No markings, Fine in about Fine dust jacket with a 1/4" closed tear to the top edge of the front panel; Dj is in mylar sleeve. Hardcover,xii, 496pp, index, appendices.Spence's travel letters ad notebooks are here published for the first time, give one of the fullest accounts we have of the Grand Tour between the generations of Addison and Boswell. Frontis portrait. Joseph Spence (1699 - 1768) was a historian, literary scholar and anecdotist, most famous for his collection of anecdotes (published in 1820) that are an invaluable resource for historians of 18th-century English literature. Recommended by Alexander Pope, Spence became a travelling companion of Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex, on a Grand Tour lasting from December 1730 to July 1733. Spence was a companion to John Morley Trevor in his tour of the Netherlands, Flanders, and France between May 1737 and February 1738, and between September 1739 and November 1741 travelled in Italy with Henry Pelham-Clinton, the Earl of Lincoln. Lord Lincoln then provided the scholar with appointments and incomes that ensured his financial security. While touring, Spence frequently wrote letters to his mother, which he later edited for publication but never published, until this book appeared. Klima was an Associate professor of English at McGill University. (3.5 JM HOJ 300/4 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Book is clean, tight and unmarked. It appears unread. Except for the tiniest bit of shelf wear at the bottom right corner of the dust jacket, the presentation is perfect.