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This particular publication led its publisher, Virtue, to claim 'that the prosperity he had attained was mainly owing to Dr. Beattie's literary assistance'. Beattie and Bartlett put out similar volumes on Switzerland, the castles and abbeys of England, and the Danube, though the Scottish volume was the greatest success.]]>
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I remember to have heard you regret, that in all your peregrinations through Europe, you had ever neglected the island of Sicily; and had spent much of your time in running over the old beaten track, and in examining the thread-bare subjects of Italy and France; when probably there were a variety of objects, not less interesting, that still lay buried in oblivion in that celebrated island. (1-2)


Brydone clearly identified the interesting objects, for his work went through more than 20 editions in his lifetime.]]>
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This particular edition is an abridgement of the 1804/5 Edinburgh second edition. It was printed in 1964 by the same printing firm, T. & A. Constable, that printed the original. It would be nice to think that the success of Bruce's story at the beginning of the nineteenth century put the firm on the sound footing that ensured its future. Certainly there was still a demand for Bruce's account more than 150 years later.]]>
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Cary, John, approximately 1754-1835]]> Maps]]> Text]]> England]]> Wales]]> For one year, from July 1844 to July 1845, Dickens and his family lived in Genoa. Based on letters to his friend Forster, Pictures from Italy describes the travels in the ‘good old shabby devil of a coach’ through France, and then to Genoa via Marseilles. While residing in an Albaro villa, and then ‘Palazzo Peschiere’, he also visited Venice, Naples, Rome (the Colosseum: ‘most stupendous and awful’), Pisa, and Pompeii, where he climbed Mt. Vesuvius and looked ‘into the flaming bowels of the mountain’. Conscious of charges of anti-Catholicism, he reminded readers that Pictures from Italy was ‘a series of faint reflections – mere shadows in the water.’ Here are the first Bradbury and first Tauchnitz editions of 1846.

[Page 10 and 11 of Charles Dickens's Pictures from Italy.]

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The use of an anonymous male pseudonym befits the rather unusual voyeuristic frontispiece (Millenium Hall is a secular convent), but was primarily a way of lending the book, with its strong philosophical arguments for female education, a seriousness that Scott rightly believed a woman novelist's name would not evoke.]]>
Gentleman on his travels (Lady Barbara Montagu and Sarah Scott)]]> Engravings]]> Text]]> De Beer Collection copy. Ownership inscriptions: Caroline Morris. M.F. Christopher, November 1859.]]>
Hurd, Richard, 1720-1808]]> Text]]> John Murray (Firm) ]]> Text]]> Leo, Africanus, ca. 1492-ca. 1550]]> Text]]> Michelin Tyre Company]]> Text]]> Illustrations]]> Parkinson, Sydney, 1745?-1771]]> Engravings]]> Polite traveller and British navigator]]> Engravings]]> Text]]> Porter, J. L. (Josias Leslie), 1823-1889]]> Text]]> Potter, Olave M. (Olave Muriel) ]]> Illustrations]]> Text]]> Roberts, David, 1796-1864]]> Lithographs]]> Text]]>