Letters From the Grand Tour by Spence, Joseph - 1975

Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1975 Edited by Slava Klima. "Joseph Spence's travel letters and notebooks, here published for the first time, give one of the fullest acounts we have of the Grand Tour .between 1731 and 1741 made three tours . the letters are an invaluable document on the problems a young nobleman's travelling companion had to face in the course of .'this fabulously extravagant education for a ruling class , more costly than any invented before or enjoyed ". First Editin.. Hardcover. As New/Near Fine.