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Book Title: The grand tour
Author: Christopher Hibbert
ISBN: 297178423
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Year Published: 1969
Our Price: £29.70 GBP ($49.01 USD)
Description: 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
Condition: Collectable- Very Good
Dustcover: Yes
Binding: Hardback
Type: Used Books

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