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London, The Hakluyt Society, 2004. XVII,331 pp. 49 b./w. figs. Orig. publisher's blue cloth over boards, lettered gilt to spine, gilt vignette to upper board, d./j. 8vo. - Dust jacket sl. discol. on the spine. (Works issued by The Hakluyt Society, Third series, no. 14).Focusing upon three previously unpublished accounts of youthful English travellers in Western Europe (in contrast to the renowned but maturely retrospective memoirs of other seventeenth-century figures such as John Evelyn), this study reassesses the early origins of the cultural phenomenon known as the 'Grand Tour'. Usually denoted primarily as a post-Restoration and eighteenth-century activity, the basis of the long term English fascination with the 'Grand Tour' was firmly rooted in the mid-Tudor and early-Stuart periods. Such travels were usually prompted by one of three reasons: the practical needs of diplomacy, the aesthetic allure of cultural tourism, and the expediencies of political or religious exile. The outbreak of the English Civil War during the late-1640s acted as a powerful stimulus to this kind of travel for male members of both royalist and parliamentarian families, as a means of distancing them from the social upheavals back home as well as broadening their intellectual horizons.

Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. First Edition. Octavo (25.5cm). Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt, in blue typographic dust jacket; plain endpapers; [xviii],331pp; black and white plates. A straight, fresh copy, lightly pushed at head and tail, Near Fine. Jacket with small crease at front upper edge, slight edgewear: Very Good. Hakluyt Society Series III Volume 14.