Naples (Italy)]]> Vesuvius (Italy)]]> Illustrations]]> Text]]> Naples]]> Bertelli, Pietro]]> Engravings]]> Italy]]> Torre, Carlo, -1679]]> Engravings]]> Milan]]> Ancisa, Pietro Antonio dell]]> Engravings]]> Florence]]> Silvestre, Israel, 1621-1691]]> Engravings]]> Italy]]> Polite traveller and British navigator]]> Engravings]]> Text]]> Parkinson, Sydney, 1745?-1771]]> Engravings]]> Dampier, William, 1652-1715]]> Maps]]>

I remember to have heard you regret, that in all your peregrinations through Europe, you had ever neglected the island of Sicily; and had spent much of your time in running over the old beaten track, and in examining the thread-bare subjects of Italy and France; when probably there were a variety of objects, not less interesting, that still lay buried in oblivion in that celebrated island. (1-2)


Brydone clearly identified the interesting objects, for his work went through more than 20 editions in his lifetime.]]>
Boswell, James, 1740-1795]]> Engravings]]> Text]]> Corsica]]>
Wood engravings]]> Text]]> Italy]]> Gell, William, Sir, 1777-1836]]> Auldjo, John, 1805-1886]]> Illustrations]]> Vesuvius]]> Wichmanshausen, Giov, fl. 1679]]> Text]]> Hurd, Richard, 1720-1808]]> Text]]> Berchtold, Leopold, 1759-1809]]> Text]]> Brice, Germain, 1652-1727]]> Illustrations]]> Text]]> Paris]]> Thicknesse, Philip, 1719-1792]]> Engravings]]> Text]]> Sandys, George, 1578-1644]]> Maps]]> A journey into Greece ...]]> Wheler, George, 1650-1723]]> Illustrations]]> Text]]> Boswell, Henry]]> Engravings]]> Cary, John, approximately 1754-1835]]> Maps]]> Text]]> England]]> Wales]]>
This particular publication led its publisher, Virtue, to claim 'that the prosperity he had attained was mainly owing to Dr. Beattie's literary assistance'. Beattie and Bartlett put out similar volumes on Switzerland, the castles and abbeys of England, and the Danube, though the Scottish volume was the greatest success.]]>
Beattie, William, 1793-1875]]> Illustrations]]>

the musing mind
Oft 'mid the pensive pleasures that attend
The close of day, with many a mournful thought
Opprest, sad dwells on life's swift passing scene,
And dreams of bliss delusive. . . . (11-12)]]>
Sotheby, William, 1757-1833]]> Engravings]]> Text]]> Wales]]>

The use of an anonymous male pseudonym befits the rather unusual voyeuristic frontispiece (Millenium Hall is a secular convent), but was primarily a way of lending the book, with its strong philosophical arguments for female education, a seriousness that Scott rightly believed a woman novelist's name would not evoke.]]>
Gentleman on his travels (Lady Barbara Montagu and Sarah Scott)]]> Engravings]]> Text]]> De Beer Collection copy. Ownership inscriptions: Caroline Morris. M.F. Christopher, November 1859.]]>