Description

Full Name: A Tour through Sicily & Malta in a Series of letters to William Beckford, Esq. of Somerly in Suffolk. (K/A Brydone)

Author: Patrick Brydone,

Format: Hardback, 2 volumes,  including folding maps of Sicily and Malta.

Binding: re-backed in modern cloth.

Size: 8vo

Published in: 1790

Printed in London for w.Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand.

No of pages: Vol 1 – 373 pages, Vol 2 – 355

Brydone’s popular and highly collectible travel book. So popular was Brydone’s travel book that, following the publication of Brydone’s letters to William Beckford, Sicily became part of the Grand Tour and attracted numerous tourists. The work was first printed in English in 1773 and went through several editions and translations.

Condition: Good condition