History / History- Social & Commercial. / The grand tour by Christopher Hibbert Christopher Hibbert Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1969: first edition hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 7.5  x 10 inches tall: decorative endpapers: 256 pages including index:: black and white and colour illustrated through out: some full-page colour plates.  Synopsis: An  account and history of the  Grand Tour, the experiences of the  young travellers who embarked upon it, and  description of the 18th and 19th century Europe  explored. The book is arranged  country by country,  followinge the recommended route- France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and the Low Countries; and includes  the experiences, diary extracts and comments of  famous travellers- including Gibbon, Horace Walpole, James Boswell, William Beckford, Thomas Gray, William Wordsworth.  The author, Christopher Hibbert,  discusses the effects of the tour upon the development of art, architecture, fashion and food in England; and the text is accompanied by illustrations of European townscapes and scenery; the momentoes travellers  brought back from the Continent; and stagecoaches, barges, vehicles, boats,social conditions and customs, buildings, inns, maps, tables of fare , and landscapes  of the time . Condition very clean and good overall used books
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  • Book Title: The grand tour
  • Author: Christopher Hibbert
  • ISBN: 297178423
  • Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson
  • Year Published: 1969
  • Status: Sold - We are currently out of stock for this title

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