A Five Weeks Tour to Paris, Versailles, Marli, &c. Shewing the Different Charge Attending One, Two or Four Persons through this Tour . . . With an Accurate Description of Paris . .
by [LUCAS, WILLIAM]
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- Condition
- Title-page trimmed slightly along the fore-edge (not touching the text); top margin closely trimmed, touching the pagination on
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About This Item
London: Printed for T. Waller, 1752, 1752. The Second Edition, "corrected and enlarged." The first was published in 1750. ESTC T63180; NCBEL II, 1419. Title-page trimmed slightly along the fore-edge (not touching the text); top margin closely trimmed, touching the pagination on four leaves; light foxing; very good copy.. 8vo, later tan quarter calf, marbled paper boards, red leather spine label, gilt lettering. Bound from a tract volume; without the half-title and advertisement leaf. A lively tourist guide to Paris, with recommendations for cafes, wine, travel by coach, notable monuments and buildings, dealing with the border police, currency exchange, etc. Five Weeks Tour was sufficiently popular that it went through four editions; the final one was issued in 1765. William Lucas apparently published nothing else.
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- The Brick Row Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26039
- Title
- A Five Weeks Tour to Paris, Versailles, Marli, &c. Shewing the Different Charge Attending One, Two or Four Persons through this Tour . . . With an Accurate Description of Paris . .
- Author
- [LUCAS, WILLIAM]
- Format/Binding
- ESTC T63180; NCBEL II, 1419
- Book Condition
- Used - Title-page trimmed slightly along the fore-edge (not touching the text); top margin closely trimmed, touching the pagination on
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- The Second Edition, "corrected and enlarged." The first was publ
- Publisher
- London: Printed for T. Waller, 1752
- Date Published
- 1752
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