JOSEPH SPENCE: Letters from the Grand Tour
Language: English
Published by McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal & Kingston, 1975
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: J. W. Mah, Burnaby, BC, CanadaJ. W. Mah
AbeBooks seller since October 30, 1997
Condition: Used - Fine
US$ 60.00
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(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".…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- JOSEPH SPENCE: Letters from the Grand Tour
- Author
- Spence, Joseph; Edited By Slava Klima
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal & Kingston
- Publication year
- 1975
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine (-)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0773500901
- ISBN 13
- 9780773500907
- Edition
- 1st.
- Seller catalogs
- BIBX, Biography, Britain, the British, British Life., Travel and Exploration, Z ZZB
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