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SMOLLETT (Tobias): Travels through France and Italy. Containing Observations on Character, Customs,Religion, Government, Police, Commerce, Arts, And Antiquities. With a Particular Description of the Town, Territory, and Climate of Nice: To which is added, A register of the Weather, Kept during a Residence of Eighteen Months in that City., London: Printed for R. Baldwin..., 1778.

2 volumes. 12mo (in 6s), pp. 291 [292 blank]; 290, including half-titles, contemporary lightly speckled calf, gilt rules across spines, red morocco labels; very slightly wear to spines and front joints but generally a nice set. First published in 1766, Smollett's Travels was immediately successful. The reviewer in the St. James Chronicle for 8 May 1766 remarked that the work was "entertaining, curious, and instructive, and will be found of singular Use to such as may have Occasion to go abroad"; while The London Magazine remarked that it was a "performance which bespeaks the scholar and the gentleman." However, its popularity was short-lived: there were seven editions published in the 18th century, and this is the last before one published in 1907. (Book ref. 5303)  £ 200.00

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