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LASSELS, RICHARD. The Voyage of Italy; or, A Compleat Journey through Italy. [46], 251, [1], 192, 195-326, 337-447, [5] pages, including engraved additional title. 2 volumes in one. 12mo, contemporary calf, top of spine chipped, joints partly cracked, cords intact; minor marginal soiling on additional title, light dampstain in lower outer corner of several leaves toward beginning, clean tear across 2D6. Paris: to be sold in London by John Starkey, 1670
first edition; issue with Starkey imprint on general title. "The most influential English guidebook of the period, conditioning the first impressions of many a tourist to that country. It also provided the basis for subsequent guidebooks . . . The unprecedented attention it paid to art and architecture encouraged the phenomenon of the eighteenth-century style 'grand tour' (a term coined by Lassels) according to which art prevailed over all other subjects, religious or secular" (ODNB). Pine-Coffin 635; Wing L465.
