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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 (2A2--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)
2 volumes, 8°. Half-titles (2A
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)