The voyage of Italy, . or, a compleat journey through Italy. In two parts. With the characters of the people, and the description of the chief towns, churches, monasteries, tombs, libraries pallaces, villas, gardens, pictures, statues, and antiquities. As also the interest, government, riches, force, &c. of all the Princes. With introductions concerning travel. By Richard Lassels, Gent. who travelled through Italy five times as tutor to several of the English nobility and gentry. Never before extant.
Richard Lassels (1603?-1668)
Category
Books
Date
1670
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3048817
Summary
Bibliographic description
[46],251,[3],447[i.e. 435],[9]p. . 12mo.. Former shelfmarks: Q7-16; Nn.1.17. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754; also found in Wimpole books acquired by his successors].. Binding: Seventeenth-century mottled calf, gold-decorated spine brown spine-label
Makers and roles
Richard Lassels (1603?-1668) Simon Wilson (fl.1670)