SMOLLETT, Tobias. Travels through France and Italy. Containing observations on character, customs, religion, government, police, commerce, arts, and antiquities. London: for R. Baldwin, 1766. 2 volumes, 8°. Half-titles (2A 2- - 3 of vol. I with staining to margin, end leaves of the same vol. browned at margins.) Contemporary calf, spine compartments with raised bands and morocco lettering-pieces (restored, spine of vol. I subsequently chipped at foot, other wear to joints). Provenance : Theodore Julius Hare (19th-century armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Smollett's Travels recounts his experience abroad in a series of 41 letters, of which 8 concern Italy. Smollet and his wife set out from Dover in June 1763 after the death of their only child. They settled in Nice for a year before spending two months in Italy from the beginning of September 1764. A subsequent visit overland from Nice to Turin in February/March 1765, described in letter XXXVIII, is now considered a fiction. Smollet returned to Italy in 1769 on account of his health, wrote most of Humphrey Clinker that autumn, and after vainly seeking a cure for consumption at the baths of Luca and Pisa died at Leghorn on 17 September, 1771, where he is buried in the Protestant cemetery. Ingamells p. 873. (2)
SMOLLETT, Tobias. Travels through France and Italy. Containing observations on character, customs, religion, government, police, commerce, arts, and antiquities. London: for R. Baldwin, 1766. 2 volumes, 8°. Half-titles (2A 2- - 3 of vol. I with staining to margin, end leaves of the same vol. browned at margins.) Contemporary calf, spine compartments with raised bands and morocco lettering-pieces (restored, spine of vol. I subsequently chipped at foot, other wear to joints). Provenance : Theodore Julius Hare (19th-century armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Smollett's Travels recounts his experience abroad in a series of 41 letters, of which 8 concern Italy. Smollet and his wife set out from Dover in June 1763 after the death of their only child. They settled in Nice for a year before spending two months in Italy from the beginning of September 1764. A subsequent visit overland from Nice to Turin in February/March 1765, described in letter XXXVIII, is now considered a fiction. Smollet returned to Italy in 1769 on account of his health, wrote most of Humphrey Clinker that autumn, and after vainly seeking a cure for consumption at the baths of Luca and Pisa died at Leghorn on 17 September, 1771, where he is buried in the Protestant cemetery. Ingamells p. 873. (2)
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