Item #428768 Boswell on the grand tour : Germany and Switzerland, 1764 / edited by Frederick A. Pottle, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University. James Boswell, Frederick A. Pottle, author.

Boswell on the grand tour : Germany and Switzerland, 1764 / edited by Frederick A. Pottle, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University

1953, 1st edition. London: Heinemann. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #428768

Physical description; xxiii, 354 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Journal of a tour through the courts of Germany. -- Boswell with Rousseau and Voltaire. -- Appendix I. Successive drafts of Boswell's first letter to Rousseau. -- Appendix II. Letter of Rousseau to Alexandre Deleyre. Subjects; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712-1778. Voltaire 1694-1778. Germany Description and travel. Switzerland Description and travel. Germany Court and courtiers. Germany. Switzerland.

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