The Age of the Grand Tour

New York: Crown Publishers, 1967. Hardcover. Yellow cloth with cream spine; gold lettering on spine and figure on front cover; no dust jacket; 137 pp. with 207 bw illustrations and colour plates plus end papers. VG, clean and tight interior but with a few spots to cloth and light fraying to very top/bottom of spine. Item #120146

Subtitle reads as: Containing Sketches of the Manners, Society and Customs of France, Flanders, the United Provinces, Germany, Switzerland and Italy in the letters, journals and writings of the most celebrated voyagers between the years 1720 and 1820 with descriptions of the most illustrious Antiquities and Curiosities in these countries, Together with the Story of such Traffic by Anthony Burgess and an Appreciation of the Art of Europe in the Eighteenth Century by Francis Haskell and in Addition, decorated with a great variety of engravings, paintings, watercolours and drawings gathered especially for this particular work. Writings mainly by famous British, German, and American travelers and art works by illustrious Europeans.

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