SHARP, SAMUEL. Letters from Italy, describing the Customs and Manners of that Country, in the Years 1765, and 1766.To which is annexed, An Admonition to Gentlemen who pass the Alps, in their Tour through Italy. iv, 312, [1] pages, including errata leaf. 8vo, contemporary calf with morocco lettering piece; contents relatively clean. Contemporary bookplate of William Mitford of Pitshill. London: R. Cave and W. Nicol, 1766
first edition. "One of the most outspoken and critical accounts of Italian life to be published in England during the eighteenth century, presenting a thoroughly jaundiced view of the country, but not mere invective"--Pine-Coffin 765/4.
