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The Grand Tour 1592-1796 Edited by Roger Hudson The Folio Society.
Folio Society hardback edition first printing 1993 270 pages, well illustrated in b/w & colour Book: A very fine copy, looks unread. Complete with very good slipcase Dustwrapper: None as issued REF. 0001772 Roger Hudson gathers accounts by British travellers undertaking the Grand Tour of Europe, the extended journey regarded for centuries as an essential part of an educated gentleman’s development. France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands are encountered through diaries and letters describing art, antiquities, roads, inns, scenery and foreign customs. The lavish Folio Society presentation volume is illustrated in colour and black and white, with maps drawn by Denys Baker. Its pictorial cloth reproduces Thomas Jones’s Hillside with Rome in the Distance
