Author: EUSTACE, John Chetwode.
Title: A classical tour through Italy an. MDCCCII. Fourth edition. To this edition, carefully revised, corrected and amended, is added a description of the most remarkable excavations of Pompei subsequent to the author's tour, with a plan of that ancient city, and references to the same, and moreover an itinerary of the posts on the principal roads, and a list of the most celebrated, and commodious inns throughout Italy.
Description: Leghorn: Printed and sold by Glaucus Masi, 1818. 12mo. 4 vols. Vol.1: xxiv, 486p. Vol.2: 508p. 10 engraved plans of churches in Rome. Vol.3: 629p. Folding engraved plan of Pompei. Vol.4: 512p. Quarter calf, speckled paper-covered boards, gold tooled spines; spines rubbed and with wear at corners and at head and foot of spines. Armorial bookplate of Mure of Caldwell. **** Eustace's tour of Italy took place in 1802 when he travelled with Philip Roche, Robert Rushbroke and John Cust (later Lord Brownlow, to whom the book is dedicated). "Publication was delayed by what the author called 'frequent avocations' and by other excursions in the intervening years. When it finally appeared, it had an immediate success and reached seven editions by 1841.The work presents a reasonable and well balanced account of all aspects of Italian life, though the author, who was a Catholic priest, is said to have repented later of some of his more liberal expressions of opinion." - R.S. Pine Coffin, Bibliography of British and American travel in Italy to 1860, 802/2.

Keywords: Italy, travel, Pompei


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